Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wizened little body alive, this "small, old, wrinkled boy of eighteen or nineteen" pits his wits against a gang of "sucker players" bent on taking his last grimy dollar. The reality of the situation has the emotional conviction of a nightmare; the suspense, built on a wealth of realistic detail, is as gripping as a war in Europe. Though the dialogue sometimes smacks of the Hemingway-Saroyan tradition, Mailer, who incidentally hies from New Jersey, has completely avoided the artificialities and the polished sophistications characteristic of so many Advocate short stories and replaced them with conviction, a strongly developed plot...
...bronze heads, a man's and a woman's, are realistic and natural, differing markedly from the abstract and symbolic art usually associated with the African Negro artisans. In refinement of modeling and detail the Ife heads are regarded as being on a level with fine works in the European tradition. Discovery of the heads went far to revise anthropologists' ideas of the level of Negro metal arts in Africa...
Such incidents were not simply expressions of resentment against the U.S. for seizing Italian ships and ousting an air attaché (see p. 17). They were steps in a carefully planned campaign, similar in detail and in purpose to the campaign which preceded Italy's declaration of war against Great Britain and France last June...
This week Ellen Glasgow, now 66, added In This Our Life to this impressive series. Not her greatest book, it is an interesting detail in the mural of her life work. She had been working on this detail since 1935, had revised it at least three times. It is not unusual for Novelist Glasgow to rewrite a single chapter 15 times...
Plans for the National Conference for Democracy in Education, to be held here Saturday and Sunday, have been completed in detail, according to Janet Skner, secretary of the Planning Committee...