Word: perfectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe in all this nonsense of tying oneself to the keyboard all day." While most musicians practice for five of six hours every day, he will go for days without looking at a piano. Some younger pianists, he says, in their note-niggling pursuit of perfection, end up "taking a performance out of their pocket instead of out of their heart." This lack of involvement, he feels, extends to the audience as well, a result of being raised on note-perfect stereo recordings. Says Rubinstein: "In the old days, young girls would commit suicide after an overwhelming musical performance. Nowadays...
After World War II, the cheapest space for artists in New York was to be found on the decaying Lower East Side. One of its original "Bowery boys" was Lester Johnson, now 47; just as he felt himself on the verge of painting "the Perfect Picture" -consisting of three abstract squares -the guy with the punching bag in the gym down stairs started. "I sat there bouncing," he recalls. "I reached a dead end with my painting...
Coached by former Crimson captain Steven J. Schneider '52, the Crusaders were no match for Harvard. Captain Rick Kolombatovich allowed no touches in three foil bouts, the first time a Harvard fencer has turned in a perfect performance this year. Junior Dan Isaacson gave up only four touches in three bouts...
...would like to see the girls in Lamont, but I have no influence," Ruth K. Porritt, head librarian at Radcliffe said last night. "This is Harvard's decision. The Library Committee had a perfect right to do whatever they chose to do," she added...
Harvard's hopes for the upset of the year reached their peak early. After a faceoff to the left of B.U. goalie Jack Ferreira, Kent Parrot angled back a perfect pass from the end line to Dennis McCullough, alone six feet in front of Ferreira, whacked the puck into the lower left hand corner to give the Crimson the lead...