Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That element is Berlin's major strength. He does not only give us a narrow, well-defined text about O'Neill. Rather, he sacrifices a small amount of detail and scope to share with us the cardinal doctrines of O'Neill's philosophy, With this purpose in mind. Berlin is able to use evidence from Greek tragedy. Nietzsche's Dionysian philosophy and Freudian psychology to touch that fog that surrounded O'Neill. Though, as Berlin himself admits, his subject "wrote with a burning intensity that eludes description or analysis," that broadened picture makes the book worthwhile. O'Neill gazed into...
...seven top-ranking aides, last week put his name to a document at a ceremony he proudly called "a historic event." The moment deserved such solemn words; the Pope was promulgating a new code of canon law, to take effect Nov. 27, that is intended to govern in detail the religious practices of 796 million Roman Catholics around the world.* It is the first revision of the statutes since...
Lyndon's nascent attempts at wheeling and dealing came during his college days, another obscure period of his life about which Caro has unearthed intriguing and revealing details. The future President's obsequiousness towards the Southwest Texas State faculty and his manipulation of campus elections foreshadowed his later political machinations. At this stage of the book, though, Caro's mass of detail on Johnson's devious practices as a college student leads him to needlessly damn his subject in advance...
...other points Caro gets lost in his impressive research and bogs down in detail. He dwells on young Lyndon's dislike of school and disobedience of his parents to the point of tedium, seemingly overwhelmed by the rush of information from newly interviewed Johnson friends and classmates. Similarly, he loses a sense of proportion when he uses the same dramatic, overheated the tone to reveal both Johnson's finagling of a college election and multi-million-dollar Brown & Root schemes...
...arrest of Susan's house boy--come without warning or apparent logic. Jaffe placed too much emphasis on the camera's ability to drain all meaning from a scene, without making enough effort to merge scenes and speed up the film's pace. His naive reliance on detail, rather than illuminating his subtle themes, merely gets in their...