Word: perfectionist
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...rich enough in detail, he figures, it can be dramatically simple in its overall effect. He once devoted three quarters of a painting to a grassy hillside, spent a month and a half brushing in each grass blade separately "to make it come toward you, that surge of earth." Perfectionist though he is, Wyeth does not aim to please. The warmth, charm and dazzle of color are foreign to him; so are rhythmic arabesques of line. Using egg tempera and tiny brushes, he paints mostly with dull browns, greys and blacks, composes his pictures to create a deathly sense...
West Point has a sober, rational and perfectionist approach to football. Says one of several slogans on Army's dressing-room wall: "There is no substitute for work." Navy's slogan last week was simpler: "Beat Army!" By doing just that, Navy managed the upset of the year...
Like many another sensitive man, Saint-Ex had become sick of the human greed and selfishness he saw about him. He affirmed that men can be better than they are, and like many another perfectionist, sought a moral and spiritual climate where goodness could flourish. Halfway through this century which he hated, most men can share Saint-Ex's yearning toward God. It is not likely that they would accept life in his parched heaven...
...Perfectionist. In St. Louis, Liquor Store Manager Floyd Rice gave police such a detailed description of the man who he said had robbed the store of $425 that they got suspicious, quizzed him further, found that he had taken the money himself...
...through four or five weeks of rehearsals before they ever get on the boards. He is likely to step out in rehearsal and say in a mild, pleasant voice, "Now in my opinion, what the composer wanted to show here was . . ." and then leap through the action himself. A perfectionist, he rehearsed one scene in Ariadne 50 times. Even after the opera is onstage, Artistic Director Ebert still finds work to do. At Ariadne's opening he perched up in the lighting box, made four pages of notes on slow entrances, faulty gestures, sloppy curtain calls...