Word: perfectionist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same reasons that, as Tolstoy said, all unhappy families are unhappy in different ways. In The Anatomy of Revolution, the late Crane Brinton, the Harvard historian, attempted to formulate the stages of revolution. First, in Brinton's model, comes the euphoric phase of good feeling, when expectations and perfectionist rhetoric run high. Soon the practical tasks of governing split moderates and radicals. In the second stage, extremists rise and consolidate their power. Next comes the Terror, when the regime desperately tries to accomplish revolutionary goals no matter what the cost in blood. This horror often engenders a Thermidorean reaction...
According to Texas rules, all candidates for the twirling line must be at least sophomores and able to play a musical instrument well enough to make the school band. At Huntsville that in itself is serious business, because it means dealing with Richard Wuensche, 36, the intense, bespectacled perfectionist who directs the band. Wuensche (rhymes with clinchy) is known as The Chief, and the 175 members of the Huntsville marching band are Wuensche's Wonders. For eight years they have won the Division One rating for high school bands in Class AAA (schools with 625 to 1,300 students...
...head, with a gaggle of golden-throated divas to sing his praises, among them Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dorothy Kirsten, Bidú Sayāo and Licia Albanese. Leontyne Price declared that her former mentor is still the "guiding figure" in her career. Also a tough perfectionist. "Just when you think Adler is safely tucked away in his office," she said, "he'll pop out from behind a bush and tell you your train is a foot too long...
Field and then assistant coach Carole Kleinfelder worked with Seidler on honing her goal-keeping skills, and the incessant perfectionist qualities in the twineskeeper did the rest. Ellen has been in the twines for every game since opening day in 1976, and her stats have been every bit as amazing as the Crimson's turnaround. The K-House senior has notched 20 shutouts en route to a 25-7-6 mark, and although she's the first to modestly downplay her contribution to the squad's success, the kudos continues to roll...
...wife; in Oak Lawn, Ill. A series on a scandal-infested municipal sanitary district won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1962; subsequently, he headed inquiries into election fraud and federal housing programs that garnered his paper two more Pulitzers. According to Tribune Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick, Bliss was a "perfectionist who agonized over details and in effect became a victim of his own intense devotion to journalism...