Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dunster House Committee Chairman Jonathan E. Klaaren '86 agrees, "I think this is a matter that definitely should be looked into in more detail. The thing I do feel urgency on is the fact that some house committees get more money...
Hagerman says that he subsequently received a letter from Ad Board Chairman Frank E. A. Sander '48, asking him to detail his participation in the blockade. Hagerman refused...
...therefore be a mating of Brideshead Revisited (the only vulgar novel Evelyn Waugh wrote) with House & Garden. It should borrow widely and set forth an impressive parade of authoritative objects, with special attention paid to the decorative arts. It should sketch a portrait of a vanished order without revisionist detail, thus provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had. Its opening nights should be long, socially frantic and attended by as many titled lenders and assorted Chinless Wonders as can be flown across the Atlantic. Royalty should be present, enabling museum officials...
Ralph: So the sex books that save your marriage are the high-toned ones that don't go into all that messy detail...
...most striking aspect of Texas is its detail. Usually readers of detail come away with a feeling for their subject as well as a knowledge of it. But even though Texas gives 1096 pages of historically correct facts, it doesn't give a real feeling for the state. It is very easy to read Texas, know every minute detail about the state, think you have a feel for its wide open spaces and larger-than-life characters, and really not know much...