Word: perfectionist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Protestant churches of the U.S. would fail in their duty if they compromised with the crude expediency of power politics. Leading the debate were two distinguished antagonists: John Foster Dulles and Charles Clayton Morrison, editor of the Christian Century, who rejected the label of "perfectionism" but perfectly stated the perfectionist case...
...Edgar Degas was a difficult man. He called his little ballet dancer models "rats," hit the ceiling every time he saw cut flowers, threatened mayhem if his dinner was late. He was especially touchy about his sculpture, which he fashioned over home made armatures, shaped and reshaped with a perfectionist's dissatisfaction. Renoir called him "a sculptor equal to the ancients...
Brereton, a perfectionist of air operations, climbed aboard his plane. Around it gathered hundreds of big C-47 transports, loaded to their stripped ribs with paratroopers and light weapons. The scene was repeated at a score of fields. The big bombers - 1,000 of them - were already out, plastering German airfields in The Netherlands and beyond. The trim fighters -hundreds of them - were out diving against flak towers and gun sites...
...root, his thesis is simple: the Old Adam is, always has been and always will be uppermost in mankind. People have not improved much in the past, they are not improving now, and only fools assume the contrary. Woodrow Wilson and all those caught with him in the perfectionist dream of the Versailles years did assume the contrary, and led the world into chaos...
...high, delicate, exacting art of chamber music has no finer practitioners today than the Budapest String Quartet. Last week, deep in one of their busiest seasons, the Quartet was in Manhattan, giving the kind of performances that excite the perfectionist audience of the New Friends of Music. Within a few weeks they would be on the road again, following a schedule that calls for more than 90 concerts this year, 24 of them in the Library of Congress, four for the New Friends, twelve at a summer engagement at California's Mills College, and the rest in U.S. towns...