Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crash survival tests. But the Army has more V-25, most of them now being assembled by General Electric Co. from captured German parts. It plans to fire them one a week. They will shoot higher and farther, and will carry elaborate instruments to report by radio every detail of their performance...
Camus, who is now on a U.S. lecture tour, has denied that he is an existentialist. He is nevertheless closely identified with this French literary cult, and The Stranger is right in its groove: "existential" pessimism underlines every cold, gross, irrational detail of the story...
...much for the surface. Beneath the welter of detail of Hecate County life, beneath the venomous satire, Wilson has contrived a tight little allegory, set up against an inflexibly, moral Puritan standard that is reminiscent of Hawthorne. Although unlike Hawthorne Wilson has kept his story contemporaneous, the forces which compelled both men to allegorize are the same. Cut off from his Puritan heritage by the Romantic amoralism of the Transcendental movement which he distrusted and did not understand, Hawthorne dipped back into the seventeenth century. To Wilson, convinced that Western society is breaking up, appalled by Stalinism, the tensions...
...again like Hawthorne, Wilson is unable to relate his story to experience. In an already notorious passage in the section entitled "The Princess With the Golden Hair," Wilson describes in fulsome detail the events of an afternoon which his hero spends in bed with a woman. For all its daring detail the episode is lifeless. It is too clinical, too intellectualized-as the protagonist says-"I found that I was expressing admiration of her points as if she were some kind of museum piece." And for Wilson, all the residents of Hecate County are museum pieces, the bedeviled as well...
MacArthur complied. Brigadier General Courtney Whitney, onetime Manila lawyer, began informing the Council in the most specific detail of the U.S. democratization policies. (At one point he read the names of nearly 200 Japanese organizations, apologized for omitting the addresses.) In the deliberate fashion of a schoolmaster lecturing a group of dull pupils, he interspersed pointed remarks directed at the Russian. (On one occasion: "Is the Russian representative understanding all this?" On another: "Will you kindly interpret that to General Derevyanko?") At the noon recess a correspondent asked when Whitney would finish. He smiled and answered: "I may be through...