Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manner of it was only a detail; whether for reasons of face, of propaganda, of vengeance was incidental. What the U.S. people now heard, from Franklin Roosevelt, was only that the Japanese had executed "some" of the eight American flyers captured last year after the bombing raid on Japan. The "some" was a delicate touch of cruelty-American mothers would not know how many or which of the eight were dead or alive, or when the rest might be executed...
...number of administrative overhead personnel must be reduced to the point "where it becomes physically impossible for them to accomplish all the mass of detail formerly required of them...
Units of the QM Corps at the same time gave another version of how calisthenics should be inflicted upon men, and showed a number of onlookers who had had enough inside the Stadium the very interesting and colorful ceremony of changing the military guard detail...
Harold Smith's "Appraisal" ranks with the Advocate's best stories. Featuring the same control of medium which has characterized this author's earlier work, this tale demonstrates a new and more mature attention to descriptive detail. An unusual plot conception adds interest to the story, but its triumph is the integration of plot will the delineation of character and scene to achieve a unity of achievement uncommon in undergraduate literary effort. Ralph Bennett has contributed an excellent account of an everyday incident at a barley harvest. More a narrative essay than a short story, this episode gains from Bennett...
...Desert Victory" is a first rate documentary of the El Alamein-Tripoli phase in the Eighth Army's North African advance. It translates the newspaper headlines of the past months into specific and personal detail; it shows, in the determined action and tense faces of the men themselves, how the Eighth Army halted its retreat, "dug in" to hold off Field Marshal Rommel, and knocked his "invincible" strategy into a cocked hat by breaking through the German panzer wall and advancing some 1400 miles through desert dust...