Word: perfectionistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Shugrew, the employee in charge of renovating Watson Rink, would not comment on the damage, but Baaron Pittenger, associate athletic director, said. "It was more of an irritation than anything else--Shugrew is a perfectionist who works hard to get things done well and properly...
Similarly, Edo Marion's fencing squad is a team that allows the individuality of the performer to take precedence over team conformity. Marion is an Old World perfectionist who approaches fencing as an art, rather than as a sport. He refuses to force his sport upon his athletes, preferring to let them find the art of fencing in their own way. He instructs, but he doesn't coerce. Consequently, there is tremendous rapport on the squad that makes participation an extension of your Harvard social-life, rather than an athletic chore...
...into Don Quixote's virginal Dulcinea in Man of La Mancha, Aldonza, the scullery maid, gets a rather rough going-over from a rabble of lustful admirers. So much the worse for Sophia Loren that Director Arthur (Love Story) Hiller, currently making the movie in Rome, is a perfectionist. After umpteen retakes of the strenuous scene, Sophia was pleading sotto voce with the extras: "Take it easy, boys. I'm black and blue all over...
John Paul Vann was a legendary figure in the long history of the U.S. presence in Indochina. A romantic and a perfectionist, he retired from the army in 1963 after a dispute with senior U.S. officials over American policy in South Viet Nam. After returning two years later as a civilian adviser, he conducted the notably successful pacification program in the Mekong Delta with his usual impatience and abrasiveness. Thirteen months ago he became the senior American adviser in the Central Highlands. By the time he died last week in a helicopter crash, while flying by night from his headquarters...
...class. Jeez Christ, if his team didn't get a run or a score he'd come home and yell and kick at things." At other times "Artie baked a lot at home -cakes and cookies-and he made perfect frosting. He was a perfectionist. Artie would decorate each cupcake from a pastry-frosting bag, and if I dipped my finger in the frosting he'd be mad as hell...