Word: precisionism
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Where does it all come from? Martins credits the expanded audience for ballet. "Remember when everyone talked about the 'ballet boom' in the '70s? Well, it's permanent." He praises the N.Y.C.B.'s affiliated School of American Ballet, its national recruiting staff and its faculty, singling out his own mentor...
You wouldn't know it from her writing, however. Robison writes with the same ironic precision that's in her speech. Witness this dialogue from her early short story "Bud Parrot":
Hockey is a game of poetry and brutality. There is the precision of passes and the crushing vengeance of players smashing each other against the glass. Hockey is a blend of baseball and football, soccer and the Ice Capades.
Harvard hockey is fast. Forwards don't get trapped often in the corners but cruise down the center of the ice, flicking passes back and forth. Precision. Pretty.
Wet conditions traditionally favor the running game--which usually requires less precision than passing, although in the UMass game the wet conditions forced more than a dozen fumbles--and there Harvard looks to have the edge.