Word: precisionism
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Schedules ran with easy precision. When Nixon took to train travel, reporters soon learned that they should dash back to their cars when he introduced his wife Pat, because that meant the train would pull out in exactly 60 seconds. Pat was introduced without fail at every meeting, usually as...
A novelty on the program was Falla's ballet music El Amor Brujo, the best known section of which is the Ritual Dance of Fire. Based on Spanish folk spirit, Falla's music is exotic, feverish, and sometimes haunting. Soloist Malama Providakes sang with an idiomatic flavor reminiscent of the...
Lubell claims no statistical precision for his technique ("decimal points in a polling percentage are a pretentious farce"), but he believes that he misses no major trends or issues. Other newsmen have begun to pay him the compliment of imitation. Several Scripps-Howard papers, which run his national pre-election...
A Smile from the Animal. The squad jogs into position for group work. Off in a corner, guards and tackles begin to belt into blocking dummies, working in units of four, driving ahead, backpedaling and driving again with high-stepping precision. A pair of "scouting teams'' run opponents...
A similar picture might be drawn of Shaw himself and his long succession of aggressive girl friends. Biographer Ervine chronicles them all with a precision not diminished by his dignity. At one point, Shaw was carrying on six affairs at the same time, but of these women "only two were...