Word: precisionism
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All kinds of good things must be said for the present production. It is a delight, especially in the pocket-sized theatre of the Hotel Bostonian, decked out in appropriate Gallic style. With Offenbach in the background and designer Robert Wells' curtain a la Toulouse-Lautrec, it out-Montmartres Montmartre...
He does, however, state that graduates from Paradise "comprise virtually the only group of college graduates in the country in which every member can write reasonably well, think with some precision and some tenacity, and read and have an idea of what is worth reading." I think he's too...
Car attendants, known as "boy-san," offer cold or hot towels to travelers, and serve them cups of tea as soon as they settle in their reclining seats equipped with earplug radio receivers. Passengers too indolent to make their way to diner or buffet are served by uniformed girls trundling...
> Stroking at a low beat with power and precision. Cornell's twice-beaten varsity crew pulled past the rest of the 13-boat field about a mile out and raced through the final two miles to win the grueling 60th Intercollegiate Rowing Association championship two lengths ahead of previously...
"Observe," Woodworth continued, "that Whitehead linked together "receptiveness to beauty" and "activity of thought"--"romance" and "precision," the transport of joy and the discipline of the mind. Woodworth called this juxtaposition "the paradox of discipline and freedom"; he illustrated it with a feeling he said occurred often among musicians--"only...