Word: perfectionists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years as the restlessly perfectionist editor of the New York Times's fat, sober Sunday supplements, Lester Markel, 64, has always put fact above fancy (and reaps his reward in juicy ads for bras, girdles and lingerie). In the latest Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Markel chides other editors for stressing entertainment. "I have been impelled at times," says he, "to inquire whether [we] should not properly be called The Froth Estate...
...Perfectionist. In Keokuk, Iowa, after Service Station Attendant Dewayne Gray, 22, serviced a customer's car, getting it in tiptop shape, he grabbed $229 from the cash register, climbed into the car and drove...
...through." McCarthy wonderingly describes an agency meeting with Client Revson: "It started in the afternoon. Around 7 a waiter from Longchamps came in to serve his dinner. Not a crumb of food was offered to anyone else at the table. The meeting went on through the night." A perfectionist, Revson can talk for hours over the exact shade of red he wants...
Room for the Divine. The revived interest in Mondrian has revealed that before he became a dry, ascetic perfectionist, he had an intense, emotional youth remarkably similar to the early years of another great Dutch painter, Vincent van Gogh. Like Van Gogh, Mondrian had a strict Calvinist father, early sought to establish spiritual contact with Holland's rough peasants, underwent a period of religious fervor that nearly swept him into the ministry. Mondrian, too, was a painter of the Dutch farm countryside, who gradually increased the intensity of his colors until they glowed with slashes of crimson, cobalt blues...
...Europe began to marvel at him, he was no longer well enough to travel. Although he was short and frail, he had the massively muscled shoulders of a boxer and steel-fingered hands. "Macaroni fingers!" he said contemptuously when sometimes he failed to play with his usual precision. A perfectionist, he preferred not to play Beethoven because he felt he was not yet worthy of the music. Along with the big technique and virile style, Lipatti had a remarkable ability, as his teacher Nadia Boulanger noted, to "see better and hear more than we do." In the present, excellent Angel...