Word: precisionism
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For weeks Walter Mondale had predicted with facetious precision that he would acquire the magic number of 1,967 delegates needed to pin down the Democratic presidential nomination at 11:59 a.m. on the day after Super Tuesday III?the final day of one of the most grueling, frenetic and...
A group of Viet Nam veterans, many of them dressed in camouflage fatigues, formed up outside the Capitol, where the Unknown Soldier had lain in state for three days. The vets tried to join the line of march-some military bands and representatives of the services and veterans groups-that...
Further down the list. I could recall events of my own College years. A water fight in Weld Hall which was reaching its supreme moment when a brimming trash container, now water vessel, was emptied from a high floor down the stairwell with such unintended precision of timing that the...
Reagan came into office challenging both halves of that proposition. He and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger repeatedly asserted that the U.S. had fallen behind the U.S.S.R. across the board. That contention was dubious on its merits, since Reagan and Weinberger chronically undervalued the components of the American arsenal in...
Nature never seemed so still or so spiritual as in his photographs. In their purity and precision, their balance of epic vistas and exquisite detail, Ansel Adams' photographs celebrated an ideal vision of nature and the American West. That black-and-white vision was of a landscape unsullied by...