Word: perfectionistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even with Boxing Gloves. Oliva's haphazard style would have horrified Perfectionist Cobb. It terrifies opposing pitchers. "Where are you going to pitch the guy?" asks California's Dean Chance. "Earlier this year I jammed him and he hit the ball into the rightfield seats. So the next time I went outside with him and he hit the ball 350 ft. into the leftfield stands." Twins Manager Sam Mele says, "I think the kid could hit wearing boxing gloves," predicts that Oliva may yet become the first big-leaguer to bat .400 since Ted Williams...
...tense situation also prevailed behind the family façade. His father was?and is?an authoritarian, a perfectionist and an unyielding disciplinarian who demanded much of his sons and admitted last week that he was accustomed to beating his wife. In March, Margaret Whitman walked out on him, summoning Charlie from Austin to help her make the break. While his mother was packing her belongings, a Lake Worth police car sat outside the house, called by Charlie presumably because he feared that his father would resort to violence. To be near Charlie, Mrs. Whitman moved to Austin. The youngest...
Heston is simply a professional perfectionist. "Like any art," he says, "acting is imperfectible. That is why acting is more interesting than cutting chicken or selling insurance, which are perfectible, I suppose. Hemingway finally blew his brains out because he realized that for him there were no more chances to try for perfection...
...would not withdraw from Asia and leave it "to the Americans and Chinese, eyeball to eyeball, to face this thing out." That, said Wilson, "is the surest prescription for a nuclear holocaust I could think of. 'World, go home' is not the posture for this party, and perfectionist solutions, however cathartic and satisfying to their authors, do not bring peace." His performance was effective enough to bring at least temporary peace within his ranks. When it came to a vote, Wilson handily defeated the censure motion, 225 to 54, although 84 abstained or stayed away...
...Matter of One-Half Inch. Most golfers would have gone to bed with a pill and a prayer for the morrow. Not Nicklaus, the perfectionist. What, exactly, was wrong on those two missed putts? He got his answer studying a TV rerun. "I had my eyes outside the ball," he said. It took a few minutes of intense practice to adjust his stance-a matter of about one-half inch. Beaming broadly, he strode onto the first tee for next day's play-off and slammed his opening drive...