Word: precisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, at week's end, a Carnegie Hall audience, harder to please, discovered that a French orchestra is more than just another orchestra that happens to come from France: it has a tonal quality all its own. To most U.S. ears, used to lush, soaring strings, France's...
With sandwiches made by his wife packed into a car, French expects to make his run on a precision schedule and finish at 20 Walker st. before the 10 p.m. dormitory deadline. He is allowing ten minutes leeway for the first few days in order to serve the mobs of...
Keeping his planes in the air more of the time than experts thought possible a few months ago, Tunner looks on the lift as a precision operation, not as an adventure or a political demonstration. VIPs alighting at Berlin's Tempelhof airdrome are disappointed to see only a dozen...
Silent Bats. It went on like that for four days: good pitching and terrible hitting. Cleveland's brilliant southpaw Rookie Gene Bearden, shutting out the Braves (2-0), only twice let the count go to three balls on any Boston batter. Knuckle-bailer Steve Gromek, who out-pitched Sain...
Now, at 39, Agnes de Mille doesn't dance often, but when she does, her mixture of classical precision and homegrown humor sets balletomanes cheering. As the nation's top choreographer, she is usually too busy doing other things. By bringing ballet to Broadway, she thinks, she has...