The blogger Lisa Hirsch succinctly writes, "If an opera company or symphony orchestra finds itself in financial trouble, it's rarely because the musicians can't play and the costumers have forgotten how to sew".
The latest (and most high-profile) touch-up is Regina Taylor's "Drowning Crow," a slang-filled and succinctly written African-American version of "The Seagull" that is in previews at the Biltmore Theater, where it opens on Feb. 19.
Mark Zuckerberg summed up the progress succinctly, writing "We had another good quarter".
HuffPost blogger Rabbi Hirschfield put it more succinctly, writing, "First, let's be clear about what a blood libel is.
"Quality roles in studio films are just not available in great numbers for women, period," Joe Reid succinctly wrote for the Tribeca Film Festival's blog in May.
The actions of these pioneers -- and of many others -- helped secure large swaths of our country so that it will forever remain "untrammeled by man," as is succinctly written in the landmark Wilderness Act of 1964.
As Ionesco succinctly, brutally wrote: "Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless".
"He would always explain most succinctly," she wrote later, "the battle line-up, who attacked where and why, the mistakes that were made that resulted in defeat, the reasons for the battles - that war, in fact, was and has always been an extension of politics and the ultimate result of the failure of statesmen to keep the peace".
Locating someone who can write succinctly and intelligently on, say, the 1985 Christmasploitation extravaganza "Santa Claus: The Movie" is much harder.
That means half were liberal arts majors trained to think critically and write succinctly before they specialized.
