(These simple-sounding rules were, of course, not simple at all, being a convenient shorthand for a scrupulous and subtle precision and the fine art of implying more by less).
Robert Louis Stevenson and G.K. Chesterton were among his favourites.Generally speaking, his best stories were written between 1940 and the mid-1950s such mid-1950s suchnic precision and scrupulous economodels"The Loftery in BabylaconicThe Library of Babel" and "precisionnand, Author of the Quixote".
So how long could it take before the golfing master, with his scrupulous preparation, ordered mindset and nerveless precision, is seen as a German stereotype?
Supplied with the scrupulous details of every hitter's tendencies and engineered with precision, the Rays are doing what other teams are increasingly doing, just more of it.
The New Yorker has always been scrupulous, bordering on fetishistic, about commas, in large part because of its founder Harold Ross's mania for precision and clarity.
Praise is also due to the scrupulous fidelity of Walter Asmus's direction, the spectral intensity of James Farncombe's lighting, which makes darkness visible, and the precision of David McSeveney's sound: when, in Footfalls, there is fleetingreference to "lacrosse", we hear the faint echo of a referee's whistle from sports fields long ago.
The accounting is scrupulous.
