Word: precisionism
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The ceremonies at Jogjakarta went off with the fine precision of a Javanese ritual dance. The electors took their places around a U-shaped table, behind signs lettered in the republican colors of red and white; each stood for one of the 16 states that make up the new federated...
On a half-frozen field at the Polo Grounds they put on a stirring show With the poise and precision of a well-trained ballet troupe, they pranced through their T-formation tricks. Tommy Thompson, Greasy's aging quarterback, who admits to 31 but is nearer 34, handled the...
Aaron Copland's "An Outdoor Overture," while written expressly for amateur groups, still presents many of the complexities of meter and attack inherent in modern music. By all counts it was the most difficult piece on the program, the one in which the Orchestra ought most surely to have fallen...
The Dominant Element. The science of destruction, growing by leaps & bounds since World War I, has changed, and continues to change the whole face of warfare. During World War I, precision manufacture, mass production and the internal combustion engine upset all the old techniques. Barbed wire and the machine gun...
Concerto In B Flat, K. 450 (Andor Foldes, pianist, with the Lamoureux Orchestra, Eugene Bigot conducting; Vox, 2 sides, LP). Also one of the greats, performed with equal precision and more life. Recording: good.