Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organized at 10 o'clock last night when it was learned that a figue in khaki shirt and blue trousers had been seen running along the Charles River bank opposite the Mount Auburn Cemetery at 6 o'clock in the afternoon. Several of Clapp's friends and a detail of Metropolitan Police searched the woods and swamps below the Speedway, but no trace had been found at the hour of going to press...
...detail the ensuing plot with accuracy would take diagrams, a genealogical chart and reams of paper. But here the plot is not exactly of primary importance - the characters overwhelm it with their energy, their eccentricity and, at times, their excessvie gift for lengthy self-analysis. They are the book...
Twenty years of such searching for just the right tone, scrupulous attention to detail which discovered the slightest inappropriate gesture, have made the Moscow Art Players the most finished group of actors on the modern stage. But they are more than highly polished puppets; they are artists chosen for their ability "to synchronize their own feelings with those of the role." They are asked to portray only those characters whose experiences in some way resemble their own. Indeed, the nearest English equivalent to the Russian wording for acting is the phrase "deep feelings...
...complete knowledge of the whole field. Why would it not be better to demand a thorough study of one or two periods, and a general survey of the rest, such as can be contained in a course like English 41? Clearly, most undergraduates cannot be expected to answer in detail such questions as "Langland as a Reformer", "Chronicle History Plays to 1616", "Diarists of the Restoration", and similarly minute subjects in each period. It would seem more reasonable to answer two of these completely and the others in less detail; but the present division of time and emphasis does...
...speech of Secretary Hughes, which followed three days after that of the President, was largely a paraphrase of what the latter had said, but with much elaboration. The Secretary went into detail, pointing out the superiority of the World Court to The Hague Tribunal and other arbitrative bodies, showing all the legal safeguards for keeping the Court independent of the League and of partisan influence; and ended by a detailed examination of all the criticisms of the Court...