Word: detailer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...privately coarse and coercive Johnson was etched in fascinating detail in tapes and transcripts released last week by the L.B.J. Library of some of the hundreds of phone calls Johnson made to power brokers and political friends as he sought to steady the government and reassure the country in the days following the Kennedy assassination. They reveal, like few things before, this tumultuous man who responded to duty, this raw and rough-riding man of power who gloried in authority and drama even while being sensitive to tragedy...
Mukherjee discusses the Englishwoman's discreet turning-of-head when her husband finds a bibi, a native concubine. The desire for riches and adventure that drove men to India, "jilted by primogeniture," and the insatiable lust that eventually drove them crazy are narrated with a sensitive eye for detail, a fluency of prose, and, most importantly, a surprising detachment from Hannah's personal story...
Iwas thinking about my name just the other day, as a matter of fact. Someone had spelled it "Marian" and I corrected them, throwing in the detail that technically, it's the "male" spelling...
...Harvard community about a serious issue it rarely confronts. The students' class year and house are just two pieces of a picture that may better inform the community. For example, the reader may have formed a different conception of the issue if the undergraduates were both first-years--a detail that might, or might not, indicate a problem of stress and emotional difficulty for first-years...
...Bernard and Milton Glaser, Lam spent more than 65 hours on the computer, using a complicated formula to produce the various combinations of offspring. The result is the fascinating chart on pages 66 and 67. Time makes no claim to scientific accuracy (although the process is described in more detail in the text accompanying the chart) but presents Lam's chimerical results in the spirit of fun and experiment...