Word: perfectionistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...produce an intense novel that maintained a delirious pitch throughout. What he has done, however, is to create imaginative visions and recollectons within the mind of the doomed slave and yet present the poignancy of the recent massacres and the impending execution. Styron is a great stylist and a perfectionist, but he certainly is not guilty of trying to present a cosmic view of the South or the declining prosperity of Virginia Tidewater. Criticisms of Styron's use of Nat's memory to describe landscapes are unfounded. The author's sensitivity towards the setting adds much richness to the novel...
...Vladimir Horowitz is an artist of excruciating insight, courage and magnetism. His own nobility leaves no room for banality in song or style-and he therefore gave Columbia a hard time before finally approving the release of these widely varied selections from two 1966 Carnegie Hall recitals. Perfectionist that he may be, Horowitz should rest assured that his most hard-bitten critics will find a multitude of moments to cheer in this moving album...
...engineers to work on capsules months before the U.S.S.R.'s Sputnik started Washington on its race for the moon. With that much preparation, McDonnell easily won the competition to build the Mercury capsule. Then well-publicized goofs marred the early phases of the program; it was almost more than Perfectionist Mac could bear when NASA cameras detected a loose nut and a crumpled cigarette package during a zero-gravity test of an early capsule. The problems were overcome so completely that Astronaut John Glenn, America's first man in orbit, popped from his Friendship 7 Mercury capsule and sent...
There are really two sides to the Chapman coin. Heads, he looks down his nose at the Loeb; tails, he's a slightly discriminating perfectionist. "People don't ask him to rehearsals because they are afraid he would sneer," says one HDC member. "If he can't do a show exactly right, he can't bear to do it," says another. "He's kind of a snob. He won't do a show that would be compromised from the beginning...
...Paraffin. Elizabeth was a dynamic perfectionist. She could spend months sniffing half a dozen sachets a day in order to find "the most wonderful smell in the world," and insisted on having the bows on packages retied again and again until they reached the exact, proper tilt. Since very few mortals were capable of her degree of dedication, the turnover among Arden employees was a byword in Manhattan career circles; but her exacting policies made great sense to her customers. Inside her salons (now numbering 50 in 33 countries), she similarly tried to perfect the Total Woman-physically, mentally...