Word: perfectionists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tell boys the better"). O'Malley's methods simply consist of ferocious discipline and passionate intensity plus eight hours of rehearsal a week. There are two cardinal rules for the boys: 1) wear enough clothes so you don't catch cold, 2) don't shout. Perfectionist O'Malley will keep a boy in the probationary group for as long as two years if he persists in shouting at play."Why aren't you in the choir yet?"he will ask an intent nine-year-old."Because I abuse my voice," answers the boy guiltily...
...perfectionist must have something to carp at in The Pajama Game, he can pick on the scenery by Lemucl Ayers which is not up to recent musical sets. With Misses Hancy and Paige in the cast, on the other hand, the show's best scenery was not designed...
...Frank Leahy was raised in Winner, S.Dak., and the name was prophetic. As coach of the Fighting Irish, Leahy piled up a record which rivaled even that of Knute Rockne. In eleven seasons, his Notre Dame teams won 87 games (and four national championships) while losing only eleven. But Perfectionist Leahy was a sideline-pacing, hat-crushing pessimist who drove himself harder than he drove his teams, was forced to go to the Mayo Clinic for repeated physical checkups. Last season, stricken with acute pancreatitis, he was even given last rites. This week, on doctors' orders to take life...
...Perfectionist Rupp thought his boys did "right well in their debut," then had a sudden coachly afterthought: "We didn't play nearly as well as we are capable." How good is Rupp's team? In preseason polls, U.S. basketball coaches ranked Kentucky No. 2, after Indiana, last season's N.C.A.A. champion. Main reasons for the high ranking: 1) Coach Rupp himself, 2) Spring-legged Cliff Hagan of Owensboro, Ky., one of the shortest major college (6 ft. 4 in.) centers and one of the game's most prolific scorers (21.6 points average), and 3) Co-Captain...
...Wichita canvas owes much to Edgar Degas, the woman-hating perfectionist who was Mary Cassatt's closest male friend. "I would not have admitted," he exclaimed when first he saw her work, "that a woman could draw as well as that." He proceeded to teach her a good deal of his own almost cruelly precise draftsmanship, which has never been surpassed for subtlety. Other impressionists-Manet, Monet et al. -followed Degas' lead in drawing Painter Cassatt into their sunlit circle. From them she got the habit of subordinating form, space and texture to the pure play of light...