Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...primitive Negro--"an inconsistency of impressions and sentiments, which only touch the consciousness without leaving there anything else but a fleeting imprint." The emotions of the Liberian native, his sentiments, his regard for truth, his loyalty, his conception of justice, and his capacity for work are dealt with in detail. Schwab says that the Negro is not lazy. "He is merely unoccupied because he has no imperious motive forcing him to work more than he does... His supreme joy is to impress others, even if only for an instant, and for this he will work long and hard... A chief...
...Barrett '30, W. R. Harper '30, and J. N. Trainer '31, who will talk to the veterans on athletic affairs at Harvard. Official motion pictures of the Harvard-Yale football game at the Yale Bowl last fall will be shown, and Captain-elect Barrett will explain the game in detail...
...chief requirements for such work are care, accuracy, intelligence, and attention to detail. Perhaps this might all be covered by the term "commercial honesty." First, ability to see the facts; second, to draw intelligent conclusions without any blatantly blind optimism, and finally, to make intelligent recommendations based on the two foregoing characteristics. The rewards in such a field are probably not as great as in the sales department; at the same time there is probably not the same tremendous pressure placed upon those who are functioning in this field. The rewards do exist however, in this field and men entering...
With shifting standards, with biographies professing to plumb the true nature of certain familiar heroes, there have been few figures left to epitomize the standard virtues. In the intense fervor of the present day writers to make realism vivid in its bloodiest detail, a little old-fashioned evangelism is, strangely enough, valuable if not essential. And if this evangelism can be made free of mysticism and endowed with the sincerity of a commanding personality, it supplies, despite its glamor of notoriety, an anchor-stone to many drifters on the modern sea of social and economic uncertainty...
...year ago, one of the outstanding publishers told me how you and Briton had come to him for advice before starting TIME. Not content with his general statement that it coul be done, he said that he had gone into detail as to how impossible such a venture would be. He then added, 'The only mistake in my estimate was that I had omitted their stroke of genius...