Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...date. At the end of a ten-week lecture tour, he spoke with more authority than does the usual British tourist: he has studied Russian history for nearly half a century, visited Russia more than a score of times, taught in two English universities, packed many tomes with meaty detail...
Steinberg's drawings, which have most frequently appeared in The New Yorker, have a timeless, durable, hieroglyphic quality, as if their acid comments on human affairs had eaten into stone. Steinberg has a great liking for bits of ornamental detail (they are almost his trademark) as in his drawing of Hermann Göring drenched with medals. One of the outstanding drawings in his show portrayed the two sparsely clad Axis dictators in a theater dressing room ("Benito & Adolf-Aryan Dancers...
Acute directorial touch: a saboteur, who has wrecked a food train, comes home for dinner; when he takes off his jacket, he reveals a slight, honest detail rarely seen in U.S. movies: the stain of underarm sweat on his shirt sleeves...
...fanatical idealists. A whole people is fighting at bay for its freedom and its life. And millions the world over are with them, and one-sixth of the earth aids them. . . ." That official dialect, with which this book is crammed, is no light matter. It betrays in intricate detail the tone deafness to human meanings and values which is perhaps the greatest handicap of most would-be liberators...
Before geting to the detail of the day, here's a flash, right in the pan. The ban on travel will definitely be lifted for the post-exam week-end. You'll be free to go where you please from Noon on Saturday, May 15th, to Midnight (2400) Tuesday, the 18th. So, go on and make that New York date. But, "See here," don't you come back late. (well, well, a rhyme...