Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's aides were already sketching the outlines of the Administration-to-be in surprising detail. Main items...
Jazz and non-Western music receive greater attention. No more condescending talk of "primitive" music; now there are a million words on the "ethnomusicology" of Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific. Pop is sometimes treated in solemn detail. On the Beatles: "Early style is typified by She Loves You (1963), with its duple metre, almost hypnotic beat, pentatonic melody, 32-bar song form and tonic-mediant tonal relationship; its text concerns adolescent love, and has a quasi ritualistic 'yeah, yeah, yeah' refrain...
...President cannot be an expert on every detail in the economy, every detail in the defense, every detail in foreign policy. He does not have to be a scientist or a computer expert. He has to have good judgment as he listens to the arguments pro and con, as he asks questions of people who are making a presentation. He knows that Mr. A is the best economist he can get, who is objectively giving him the options, or Mr. B is a totally competent Secretary of Defense or Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and will give...
MCGINNIS stuffs the book with telling snapshots. Though he doesn't travel with any particular theme in mind, the pictures in his montage, realized in great, often tragic detail, are shrewdly observed. There is the casually inhuman toughness of the last frontier, where, when a drunk, drooling Indian lurches and almost collapses on the author's table in a diner his companion barely looks up as he says "Fuck off, partner." There is the disturbing impact of the short-sighted greed of the oil industry...
DIED. Edwin Way Teale, 81, naturalist, photographer and illustrator whose more than 30 books (The Lost Woods, North with the Spring, A Walk Through the Year) combined a scientist's eye for detail with a poet's love for language; in Norwich, Conn. Teale, who became interested in the out-of-doors during childhood visits to his grandfather's farm in Indiana, put two decades of effort and 100,000 miles of travel into a four-part series on the American seasons, which culminated in 1965 with the Pulitzer-prizewinning Wandering Through Winter. In it he wrote...