Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year, women undergraduates bursars cards say "Harvard College," where last year they said "Harvard University." Just how accurate this is hard to say. President Horner says something about not having time to catch every little mechancal detail like whether bursars cards say "Harvard College." Dean Bovet says something about how it may be correct, since all Radcliffe students have all of the rights and privileges accorded to Harvard College students--presumably even the right to have bursars cards that say "Harvard College." But in the end, Radcliffe doesn't really seem concerned about such details. President Horner says that...
...exaggerated, or abstract, the images can be felt and seen. Nye does not try to hide the words from their meaning, and she successfully moves from a small image to a large one-a wafting note based by the ears to the luminescence of the entire body-through physical detail...
...philosophers, Marx said, is not to interpret the world, but to change it. As Hickok never pretends to philosophy, there can be no faulting her unwillingness to call for change. What a reader finds in her reporting, instead, might prove more enduring. With her sensitivity, her thirst for detail, and above all, her sincerity, Lorena Hickok succeeded in finding what radical social theorists have merely postulated to exist--that among us which is human. In taking to the home' of America, and then, reporting what she felt, Lorena Hickok avoided the flaw that undermined other 1930's writers, from John...
Despite the cooling of detente and the fading of cultural exchanges between the two superpowers, the Soviets have created a three-hour, three-part television production of Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer that is astonishingly faithful to the spirit and detail of the book. Says Director Stanislav Govorukhin, 46, who has treasured Twain's novel since he was Tom Sawyer's age: "I treated it with the same care that I would a work by Tolstoy or Chekhov...
Consistent only in its consistent surprises, his work cannot be recognized by any personal style other than its marvelous competence and attention to detail. Roche, 59, seems above the style wars raging in the world of architecture. That lofty stance may be one reason why last week he won that world's highest honor: the Pritzker Architecture Prize...