Word: precisionism
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In this new humility, Lindbergh has rediscovered a reverence for wildlife that traces back to his farm boyhood in Minnesota. He has become a director of the World Wild Life Fund, works at fund raising and even writes his own pulling letters ("Let us not be a generation recorded in...
The most impressive poetry in the May Advocate is John Allman's. He has a highly functional sense of rhythm and meter which he combines with a capacity for descriptive precision. In "Cambridge Spring" he uses both skills to recreate the voice of a stunned narrator describing a sudden transition...
Not all of the issue's poets demonstrate the precision of intention and execution found in Allman and Mullen. Occasionally there is a passage like this:
Comparisons were irresistible, but as the week's performances emphasized, Bruhn and Nureyev are not really comparable. Bruhn, a mature 38, has polished his classical style to a peak of powerful precision and expressive economy. In the U.S. premiere of his pas de deux for Romeo and Juliet, he...
∙Gregorio Vardanega, 43, a native of Italy, studied painting and sculpture in Argentina, now works in Paris, where he shifted seven years ago into luminous constructions, like his blocklike, architectural "chromatic progressions." His goals in art are to produce "precision, harmony, cleanliness and order."