Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...draw what he saw he discarded detail, the etcher's common resource. He used mass and shadow as a sculptor uses them, giving what is so hard to give in any two-dimensional art?the sense of a core, an inner heart of energy whose force, diffused through the etching, creates the thing seen, tower or bridge or buttress, as a piece of inevitable logic, the peremptory gesture of a hidden impulse. When he drew a crane he was not interested in making an accurate picture of a piece of machinery used to lift stones; the crane became as vital...
...Russian, Colonel Kozlov. These discoveries consist of a number of early tombs all dating from about the first century before our era which contained an enormous number of textiles in a truly remarkable state of preservation." Professor Pelliot then went on to describe the tombs more in detail...
...information dealing with such matters as how long they spent at meals and in bed, the amounts of their allowances, earnings, the income of their families, and why they wanted to go to college. In addition, they were required to keep a time chart for a week, showing in detail their activities for every hour of the day and night from April...
...differ with him only as to time, which is a detail. He believes the foundation for independence is insufficiently strong and he is trying to strengthen it, although at times we do not agree with the methods he follows, which he sincerely believes to be best...
Last week an item concerning Jay Gould, for 19 years the world's court tennis champion, appeared on the front pages of several metropolitan newspapers. The story of his life and his athletic successes was recounted with much picturesque detail, prefaced by the sad particulars of his recent and disastrous illness. His photograph also?a plump, animated, swarthy face with a short mustache and a very round high forehead?was published near the stock photograph of Henry Miller, the actor (see MILESTONES), who had died on the same...