Word: precisionism
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Fieser's personality overflow into every part of his life. In class he is the absent-minded professor who, to the amusement of his class, frequently loses track of ten carbon atoms in his blackboard equations. In his laboratory, he is a craftsman, who runs through experiments with precision technique...
A public-opinion poll, as the nation learned in 1948, is not a precision instrument for measuring political sentiment. But until somebody finds an accurate gauge, the polls will have their place in political analysis, because they can describe certain situations better than pre-poll punditry ever could.
Two nights a week George slipped into overalls and stood at a bench in a nearby arms plant, turning out precision parts for R.A.F. guns. Every Tuesday he lunched with the Prime Minister ("I made certain he was kept informed of every secret matter," said Churchill). While the fires still...
Though much improved in the past few years, the chorus still does not have the perfect precision which used to be synonymous with the Ballet Russe. The orchestra, however, conducted by Paul Strauss, was excellent, as was the scenery throughout the performance.
Last week Bob Shaw was back in Carnegie Hall with proof that, wherever he has been sitting for the past 24 months, he has found some of the answers-if not yet all the right ones. For the first of an ambitious series of seven concerts featuring choral "masterworks" since...