Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attributes her success to her profound submission to the will of Balanchine. "All knowledge, all power was his," she writes with total seriousness. "As I saw it, I had no choice but to place all my faith and trust in him." A particularly valuable section recounts in detail what went on in Mr. B.'s voluntary Monday classes, given in the late '60s on the company's day off. Merrill never missed a session. By her own testimony she was literal- minded and scalded by self-criticism. She was puzzled that Suzanne Farrell broke all the rules and still remained...
...that she knows what she wants, she wants the best and she wants it right now," says the presidential aide. "If there's a fault in there, it's that she doesn't take the time to coax things out of people. She demands." "She does get obsessive about detail," says Son Ron. "That is part of her personality. It's like her worrying." Naturally, she is most obsessive and fretful about the President. "She is fiercely loyal to my father," says their son. "I think it has a lot to do with the fact that she comes from...
...meeting was this: What could the U.S. Secretary of State find to say that the Soviet Foreign Minister, who is fluent in English, could not have learned in advance from the American press? Well before the talks were scheduled to begin on Monday, the White House spelled out in detail the stand that President Reagan had instructed Shultz to take. The key element: the U.S. would not even consider any slowing of its efforts to develop a Star Wars antimissile defense. Indeed, it would attempt to convince the Soviets that they should shift from offensive to defensive weapons...
...admirers say he has skillfully balanced the competing constituencies of Harvard University, a feat best characterized by his highly reasoned argument against the divestiture of Harvard's investments in companies doing business in South Africa. His critics charge that he allows himself to get overwhelmed by detail and procedure, and that he has been afraid to directly address moral issues--for instance, by his steadfast refusal to divest from companies operating in South Africa...
...Riesman '31, a longtime observer of higher education, posits: "In order to understand the trajectory of Derek Bok, you must understand that he is trained as a lawyer. He came from an institution that is least like the arts and sciences. Law School is a pragmatic place, concerned with detail, procedure, and proof...