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...Guinnesses have an apartment in Manhattan's expensive Waldorf Towers, a villa in Lausanne (with a bowling alley in the basement), a 350-ton yacht that plies the summer Mediterranean, a seven-story house on Paris' Avenue Matignon ("My husband is a perfectionist, and so he would rather build a building than live in an apartment"), a stud farm in Normandy, and a mansion near Palm Beach at Lake Worth, Fla. The Florida property is divided by U.S. Highway A1A, faces the lake on one side and the beach on the other; the two halves are connected...
...Impressive Survival." Niebuhr, who has long lashed out against the perfectionist strain in Protestantism, further admires the Roman Catholic Church for having relegated its perfectionists and ascetics to the monasteries, where they cannot mess up the proper processes of society, full of contingencies and compromises...
...social perfection. Abraham Lincoln was dogged by the absolutistic demands of Horace Greeley, William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, and he had more genuine charity than all of them. In the interventionist controversy preceding World War II we were confronted by a frequently noxious combination of nationalistic and perfectionist isolationism, trying to persuade the nation to remain pure by remaining irresponsible ...Some of the soberness of Catholic social theory certainly derives from its exclusion from the political realm of the yearning for the absolute...
...American audiences have long been familiar with its graduates. In pre-Bolshevik days, the Kirov was St. Petersburg's Maryinsky company, fountainhead of Western ballet. In graceful profusion, it produced the dancers Nijinsky and Pavlova, the choreographer Fokine, the impresario Diaghilev. Its demanding, perfectionist teachers seeded the world's great troupes with their students: Galina Ulanova went on from St. Petersburg to her triumphs with Moscow's Bolshoi, and Choreographer George Balanchine used his Maryinsky training to reshape the entire U.S. ballet scene...
...term goes back to the heyday of Paris' Beaux Arts, when young architectural students, late with their assignments, would hire little carts to rush their designs to their professors just before deadline. Saarinen was never tardy because of carelessness; it was merely that he was such a perfectionist that he could not let a plan out of his office until the very last moment. As he himself said, he worked "in elephant time." But before his death last week at 51, he dotted the U.S. and Europe with some of the best modern buildings of the 20th century...