Word: precisionism
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Sometimes Phillips is almost willful in her virtuosity, and sometimes she is borne along too easily on waves of rhythmic prose. Nevertheless, her range is considerably greater than is common among her despair-addicted contemporaries, as is her fugitive grace. Where Ann Beattie's characters, for instance, are habitually on...
FAA officials say that with their new control system they will be able to meet those recommendations without reducing the number of flights entering or leaving the critical choke points. Using the new computers, supervisors can monitor with greater precision specific sections of airspace that are becoming dangerously overcrowded. Traffic...
The time is past when one could dismiss Wyeth as nothing more that a sentimental illustrator, as critics irked by his popular appeal regularly did a decade or more ago. True, his work is grounded in illustration and often fails to transcend it. Not a few of the images of...
Leon Lederman, director of Fermilab, agrees. "Even if, miracle of miracles, in the next two years they solve all the problems of brittleness and high current," he says, "we would still need lots of experience to understand the materials well enough to make good magnets. A superconducting accelerator magnet is...
(a) As Koblitz has observed, "Huntington never bothers to inform the reader in what sense these are equations." How does Huntington measure "instability," "social frustration," "social mobilization?" Does he have a social frustration meter? Abbreviating the equations in the form A/B=C, C/D=E, E/F=G, are we allowed seventh...