Word: understatedness
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Lunch in Munich. Foote's Handbook for Spies is an unpretentious, understated account of the job he did for his Russian employers. Readers looking for cloak-&-dagger excitement will not find it here. But the lack of phony tension and climax gives the book its own quiet tone of...
It is distinguished primarily for simple realism, a forthright, almost childlike honesty, a command of ordinary speech, a cool and effortless narrative style, quickened here & there with a mild, understated humor. The battle scenes are so vivid as to suggest Tolstoy's War and Peace, the common soldiers as...
Last week, with a great to-do over the wreckage, SEC suspended the "effectiveness" of Globe's stock registration statement. The registration, said SEC in its belated findings, had contained "false and misleading information." Items: Globe had failed to disclose losses of $17,000 and a $200,000 increase...
Further investigations into course conflicts between the fields of History and English, in the light of the recent Crimson editorial on the English department, reveal that the dilemma of the American History and Literature concentrator has if anything been understated.
From here on in, things develop into a kind of actors' field day, with alternations of slapstick and high comedy, carefully understated emotion, and plain-&-simple bathos. Before he is through, Director Victor Fleming (Gone With the Wind) manages to lug in almost everything except a flood, a fire...