Word: precisionism
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Swept onto Broadway with the growing tide of English hit plays, London Producer John Fernald, 56, who is making his American directing debut with a stage adaptation of C. P. Snow's novel, The Affair, had a few pronunciamentos on theater in the colonies. On U.S. actors: "They lack...
Good female prose, if properly clipped of gush, has the kind of alert precision that makes most masculine sentences seem like so much unfinished business. As writers, women are usually mistresses of microcosm: their themes may not be large, but their literary housekeeping is unassailable-the commas properly placed, the...
U.S. scientists were clearly impressed by the precision of the Soviet guidance system. Because of the rotation of the earth, an orbiting object passes over the spot of launch only once every 17 orbits.
It is said that during rehearsals conductor Iva Dee Hiatt (of Smith College) called forth this attitude by fervent references to her home institution and its undergraduates' most exuberant moments (an invitation from Yale, etc.). Whatever the merits of these tactics, there can be little doubt that Miss Hiatt is...
The sensation of the week was St. Laurent himself. The 26-year-old designer, whose first success came five years ago (when he inherited the House of Dior on the master's death and inaugurated the trapeze line), had been out of the running for a while. Drafted into...