Twitter need not corrupt the language, he argues; instead it imposes valuable reflection and concision.
Penguin Lives/Viking Press; 208 pages; $19.95Among many recent books on Sir Winston Churchill, John Keegan's stands out as a model of concision and insightfulness about an immense historical personality who helped to shape the world we live in.___________________________________The Victorians.
But short links are useful anywhere on the internet where concision is valued.Convenience has its cost.
That is a pity, as the wit, clarity and concision of his earlier chapters on Europe, America and jihadism are bracing.
They all wrote well: Mill simply, Russell entertainingly, Ayer with sparkling concision.
The description of Ottoman Smyrna, with which the book opens, is a potent evocation of a lost world.His summaries of the political and ideological developments in 20th-century Greece are models of concision, illuminating even to those who know the facts.
Ein Hungerkünstler (1924; A Hunger Artist), four stories exhibiting the concision and lucidity characteristic of Kafka's late style, had been prepared by the author but did not appear until after his death.
The hanka written by the 8th-century poet Yamabe Akahito are so perfectly conceived as to make the chōka they follow at times seem unnecessary; the concision and evocativeness of these poems, identical in form with the tanka, are close to the ideals of later Japanese poetry.
Most tanka and haiku poets continued to use the classical language, probably because its relative concision permitted them to impart greater content to their verses than modern Japanese permits.
Drawing on the Old Testament, the Talmud, and the Hebrew poet and philosopher Ibn Gabirol, Santob's Proverbios introduced Hebrew poetry's grave sententiousness and aphoristic concision.
Frost's blank verse has the same terseness and concision that mark his poetry in general.
