Word: perfectionist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Waugh: "Men: go to the university; read philosophy, history and the classics; ride horses. Women: go to Europe; learn the French and English languages; study architecture and modesty." From Author-Professor Henry Steele Commager (America in Perspective): "Keep an open mind and an experimental attitude . . . Don't be perfectionist. Avoid the doctrinaire and the purely theoretical . . . Damn the absolute...
...ukuleles, kazoos and slide whistles to play satiric take-offs on Wagner, Kabalevsky and Sousa. A waiter sang Ol' Man River and a porters' quartet turned to on Down by the Old Mill Stream, Finally, at his musicians' urging, the 83-year-old little perfectionist stood up to conduct them himself in shirtsleeves and beret. "That was a little out of tune, Maestro," grinned a trumpeter, afterward. Toscanini beamed happily: "Well, a little, but it was good...
...integrity, winds up badly in need of some integrity of its own. Suggested vaguely by the career of the late great Bix Beiderbecke, Dorothy Baker's 1938 novel told the story of a hot trumpet virtuoso who is driven and destroyed by the monomania of a jazz perfectionist. The film makes the hero (Kirk Douglas) largely the victim of a bad woman (Lauren Bacall). He is saved by the love of a good one (Doris Day) in time for a happy ending that is as off-key as a leaky cornet...