Word: perfectionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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> Perfection of the first working model of a laser, 1960.
After "Carol" the band went into a sloppy "Sympathy for the Devil." Jagger introduced himself as the devil and the audience burst into applause in recognition of its own dreams of what Mick Jagger doing "Sympathy for the Devil" would be like, and sure enough, when I asked people later...
achieves an emotional consummation that just cannot be improved. Like the Lincoln Continental, these revelations-of-mind are a polished but exhausted perfection. Where can one go from here except to the distressing extreme of Anne Sexton writing "In Celebration of My Uterus?" The poetry of discovery and sincerity becomes...
Voltaire failed from a kind of perfection. Everything came easily to him except a certain divinely vulgar excess. He was, as one critic complained, a "chaos of clear ideas." He accused Shakespeare of being "barbarous," "unbridled," "low" and "absurd." Exactly. And that coarse strength is what we miss at last...
The overruns have immersed the whole Navy in a sea of red ink. Among the most expensive items: >-A new destroyer escort pleased the Navy so much on paper that the admirals ordered 46 in all-14 from Todd Shipyards, five from Lockheed, and 27 from Ogden Corp.'s...