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Unfortunately, a precis of the alternative House leadership plan is just as revealing. A tax-cut for the working man, especially if his line of work involves owning oil companies, the Democratic "alternative" was no such thing, crammed with business breaks designed to gain the support of Southern Democrats and...
The tribute was imaginative and moving, and was a fair precis of the achievements of Chase and Smith at A.B.T. The company has kept alive the full-length classics, like Swan Lake, Giselle, The Sleeping Beauty. This season it will present Natalia Makarova's staging of the complete La...
Letters asks to be encapsulated, begs you for a precis on hind paws. Better, though, to let Barth himself summarize his beast:
The tone and settings of The Godfather were so authentic that many readers thought Puzo himself had underworld connections. But the novel, which never once mentions the word Mafia, was written entirely from research and anecdotes the author had heard from his Italian immigrant mother and on the streets of...
There is also a brisk biographical precis, with a few glimpses of some of Stone's colleagues, including his wife Esther, circulation manager of the newsletter. I.F. Stone's Weekly would have been better if it had been longer, with more footage devoted to Stone's apprenticeship...