Word: detail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...murder in the cinema was the work of one man, thus differing in detail from the actuality...
Marvel to the players as rehearsals proceeded was that a conductor with such brief experience had memorized each detail of the music so perfectly, that by listening to orchestras, reading over pocket scores in trains, at meals, in bed, he had developed such clear ideas on the meaning of each phrase and nuance. First thing he did was to reseat the orchestra, putting the first violins on one side, the second violins on the other, to hear two distinct voices instead of one massed tone. Next he instructed the fiddlers to make their bows move as one, whether Stokowski fussed...
...That Mr. Gill's judges insist upon examining trivial matters of administration at length, and at the same time impede the defendant's efforts to explain in detail important new penological concepts, which, because they are new, are not convincing unless fully outlined and backed by records...
...feeble bull's eye by asserting that one-third of college seniors are intellectually on a par with high school students. The report then dissolves into 90 pages of general discussion of educational ills and suggests the usual generalities by way of improvement. Despite the mass of blundering detail and despite the Foundation's failure to think any of its problems to practical conclusions the report does raise, if not appreciate, the fundamental problems of American education...
...tremendous scope of the Ring with its mass of detail is frightening to many a first hearer. Richard Wagner was 26 years writing it, doing first the poem of Die Gotterdammerung, prefacing it then with Siegfried, Die Walkure, Rheingold. Before the music was written Wagner turned out Tristan and Die Meistersinger, operas that he trusted to keep him before the public while the great tetralogy was in its slow making. The Ring's music was written chronologically. Its design is like a symphony with Rheingold corresponding to an introductory first movement; Walkure to a tender andante; Siegfried...