Word: precisionism
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Into the Theater. The Commission also reconstructed Oswald's movements after the assassination with near minute-by-minute precision. A Dallas motorcycle cop, M. L. Baker, who was in the presidential motorcade on Nov. 22, had heard the shots, dashed into the Depository building. The Commission had him re-enact...
Carnegie Hall was packed, and as Heifetz stepped onto the stage with the light precision that is the Heifetz way of doing things, the audience rose in tribute. Piatigorsky followed, carrying his Stradivarius cello with a giant's jauntiness, as though he were about to put it under his...
Impressionistic sets convey the mood of weightlessness and airiness suggested by Glazunov's pastel-colored music. Raymonda's feather-light leaps and soaring turns keep the heroine airborne for the better part of the performance. Raymonda is among the most difficult roles in Russian ballet, and it was...
A Ruddy Bligh. In last month's elimination trials off Newport, Scott surprised U.S. yachtsmen with his pluck and precision. Balding, ruddy-faced, he bossed Sovereign's eleven-man crew like a budding Captain Bligh, beat Kurrewa V, the favored British boat, six times in eight races. Experts...
Broken Rule. Such maverick practices are getting Steinberg everywhere. Since he took over the listless Pittsburgh Symphony in 1952, he has molded it into a musical instrument of precision and depth; it now ranks as one of the five or six best orchestras in the country.