Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with others of various nationalities, was commissioned to write in the vein peculiar to himself and to his nationality a book about "the Elephant." His book appeared as "L'Elephant etc sec3 Amours." Certainly Napoleon's amours form as prominent a feature of Ludwig's biography as any other detail of his private or his public life, though not so prominent as to necessitate a modification of the title in the French manner. But an author is subject to grave charges when he deliberately proportions his treatment to feature the sensational and erotic at the expense of the significant. More...
...with the sham of their spoken words. It has been Miss Parish's distinct triumph that she has accomplished this largely within the speeches of of the characters themselves, and has not resorted to tedious obiter dicta. Futhermore, she has decorated their halting or dissembling utterances with the impressionistic detail that filled their minds at the time,--the flowers on the table, a wide sweep of countryside, the pattern of a garden path, the set of a face; and by taking appropriate moments to repeat or contrast these details has created a series of intimate pictures and a minor symbolism...
...last week the War Department found it "inadvisable" to detail Major Hodges as a professor of warfare at Louisiana State. And not for two years will he round out the 30-year service that makes U. S. Army officers eligible for retirement by request...
...itself, but owning to the position which Havard occupies in the scholastic world, it is more than probable that ultimately it will have a profound and far-reaching influence on the whole attitude of American education. It is not the purpose of this article to discuss the plan in detail, but simply the general principle involved and some of its implications...
...athletic policy in place of their own--should have some weight with the Harvard Committee on Athletics. It is natural that a manager should be reluctant to sign a contract that would leave a hole in his next year's schedule. But this they may say, is only a detail...