"Far from a proslavery compact of 'racist' principles," Wilentz wants us to accept his view that "the Constitution was based on a repudiation of the idea of a nation dedicated to the proposition of property in humans".
Chan's style, in a programme of John Adams, Kaija Saariaho and Bartók with the youthful Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, is elfin, compact, far from flamboyant, but achieves transparent, vivid results.
Its smooth lines and gentle curves make it look deceptively compact, and far from being intimidating, the huge Volvo appears rather benign.
When Mr. Huang, 22, played the Saint-Saëns sonata on Tuesday with the pianist Jessica Osborne, under the auspices of the venerable Young Concert Artists series, his sound was not far from the "slender but robust, compact and commanding" tone described by Proust.
Yet far from being merely cleverly retro, his new compact configurations of elemental shapes have a startling freshness and a robust energy that belie their seemingly modest delicacy.
And because I give up full power, I get something far more compact.
Black holes and their surroundings are far too compact for telescopes to resolve.
Then tiny new compact flash cards (akin to the ubiquitous SD cards) suddenly provided a storage fix far more compact and power-efficient than traditional SSD-based hardriveses.
They all had the Herculean task of winning over a juiced-up Denver crowd in the far more compact but cooler Ogden Theatre awaiting the Naked and Famous' epic appearance as larger-than-life personalities from Star Wars.
But in 2013, an isolated compact elliptical galaxy was found, far from any predator galaxies able to rob it of its coat.
