Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news looks to a TIME editor in New York as compared to a correspondent in the field, Rospigliosi has this to say: "Here the size of things changes, and the importance of detail increases. In New York a particular story is viewed as a fraction of a whole, while in the field a correspondent has no real way of telling where the particular story he is working on stands in the whole category of the week's news being assembled at TIME. Therefore, the more details, the more accurately, the better...
...Author Davenport, a costume and stage designer, is a first-rate researcher, and her chief sources are the western world's painting and sculpture. Such painters as Bruegel, Hogarth and Carpaccio, who filled their canvases with a crowd of characters and worked in every last detail of period settings, are her richest gold mines...
...blunders of both Rosecrans and Bragg that Thomas' achievement seemed less impressive to them than it seems now, and the fact that Chickamauga was a Confederate victory obscured the brilliance of his own handling of his troops. Both biographers tell the story of the battle in great detail, and both tell it well. O'Connor is a more ardent partisan of Thomas than Cleaves, and heaps more scorn on the other generals...
Busy. A picture showing too much scenic detail...
...major writers with Joseph Wood Krutch's well-balanced Henry David Thoreau and Emery Neff's Edwin Arlington Robinson. In Nathaniel Hawthorne: the American Years, Robert Cantwell gave an unorthodox interpretation and filled in the background of Hawthorne's time with a rich mass of detail. Randall Stewart's Hawthorne was a more conventional biography...