Word: shorthanded
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...been remarked, is the art of omission, and these two fine volumes display the art-and the inner workings of genius-at its highest. Great Drawings travels from 15th century Painter Jan Van Eyck's warm and perceptive silverpoint, Portrait of Cardinal Niccolo Albergati, to the sensual shorthand of Matisse's Female Nude from the Back. Italian Drawings, more modest in scope and quality of reproduction, restricts itself to the 15th to 19th centuries. The subjects in both books range from rustic landscapes to architectural fantasies, from figure studies to exquisite faces...
...career as a fulltime union official. Elected president of Lodge 707 in 1931, he moved on to the Brotherhood's headquarters in Cleveland in 1942 as a clerk, promptly started a climb up the ladder of union bureaucracy by wrestling with a 90-day crash course in shorthand so that he could be come a stenographer (he still uses shorthand to take voluminous verbatim notes at meetings). Blessed with an adhesive memory for names and faces, he firstnamed countless delegates at Brotherhood conventions over the years, and in 1953 he first-named his way into the presidency...
...literally out of this world, and yet it has its own necessary coherence-as shown by the dramatic moments described in this week's cover story on the epic flight of Gordon Cooper. Nowadays everyone from garage mechanics to gospel singers have their own lingo, their own shorthand, and their own vivid phraseology. It might be possible to put out an issue of TIME in the 850 words of Basic English, but to do so would be to leave out an essential vitality in the way Americans do and say things...
...Sport section, Pitcher Warren Spahn, a man of superb control, tries to describe how he throws to the outer edge of the plate, and says, "I couldn't throw one down the pipe if I tried.'' The enlivening speech of natural conversationalists, the alphabetical shorthand of bureaucrats, the foreign words that sometimes say it better, the new names and phrases that describe the latest art fad or music craze, all find their way into our pages. A sampler from this week's issue...
...There I was twenty and pear-shaped and daddy a noble lord. Only not a rich one. Lord and Lady Clanmorris are what my parents really are. Only really they are writers too. Named Bingham like me. They live in London. And I couldn't type or do shorthand very well really. So I started this corny book. All about...