Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Mr. Dibble tells a plain, straightforward story in a vigorous way. His vision is unclouded by prejudice, he is quick, observant, interested and interesting. His style is rather anecdotal than analytic, rather active than beautiful. Unassigned quotations are frequent. Meticulous accuracy of detail, one is tempted to suspect, occasionally is permitted to give way to the larger accuracy of the complete picture. His manner is rather journalistic than literary. His irony, running through the sketches in a constant undercurrent, is a little heavy. His stiletto lacks the keenness of Strachey's. But his subjects are well chosen...
...stabilization of the currency necessitates budget equilibrium, the experts would similarly be invited to study in detail the receipts and the expenditures of the Reich as well as of the different States...
...take you to them all and many other singular nooks beside. A guide who has had extraordinary opportunities for observing every changing aspect of a great and diverse city for more than IS years, who has a curious, stumbling power for description, he can set before you with every detail of reality, the queer places, persons and events that he has seen...
...city what Dickens did for his in The Uncommercial Traveler and in other sketches. The manners are different-the American attempt not quite so successful, on the whole, as the English one. But nevertheless, The Color of a Great City is crammed with a wealth of odd detail, vivid observation and strange information. Excellent reporting, readable and alive...
...point of view of history Professor Ross covers in some detail the period of the Russo-German negotiations during the winter of 1917-18 that culminated in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk of March 1918, and he describes briefly the reorganization of Russia under the Soviet regime. He then outlines the various attempts at counter revolution and foreign intervention such as the Archangel expedition, the struggles in Siberia of the Czecho-Slovaks, Kolchak, and Semenov, and the intervention of Japanese and American troops, as well as the attacks of Denikine, Wranged, and Yudenitch. Throughout he emphasizes the policy towards Soviet...