Word: precisionism
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Take the Academic Festival Overture, for instance. Brahms' genial medley of college songs may sound at times like a Germanic version of Leroy Anderson, but the orchestra played it with the concentration of the B.S.O. and the spirit of the Harvard Band. The many sudden dynamic changes and tricky syncopated...
Though Curtiss-Wright has a backlog of almost $1 billion in orders, President Hurley is taking no chances in the feast-or-famine airplane business. A full 30% of his backlog is civilian business, and he is not concentrating on engines alone. Curtiss-Wright is making electronic equipment, textile spindles...
Last week, hitting the take-offs with precision and soaring over the barriers with the grace of a Pegasus. Foxhunter & Co. topped all but one of the international competitors from Britain. Ireland. Canada and the U.S. for the Royce A. Drake Memorial Trophy. In the jump-off, with some of...
Woody Herman at Carnegie Hall, 1946 (MGM, LP). Fifteen rowdy and tender numbers played by one of the swingingest bands of all. Herman's 1946 "Herd," for all its size and precision, sounds as flexible as a small jam band.
Use & Compare. When the laboratory people have finally perfected a new product, P. & G.'s marketing operation begins with all the precision of an amphibious landing. A staff of 125 P. & G. girls (not too pretty, lest they attract too many marriage proposals; not too homely, lest they jump...