Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Latest noted U. S. journalist to report in detail on Palestine is exuberant, redhaired, I. N. S. Correspondent H. R. Knickerbocker. According to Mr. Knickerbocker, if Arabs run short of ammunition, they take it from the police. If they lack money, they rob a British bank. If annoyed at Jewish ownership of land, they destroy deed records in the Land Registry Office. Not one British policeman risks murder by patrolling Jerusalem streets after midnight. Knickerbocker conclusions: "Nowhere in the British Empire, save perhaps among the savage tribes of the Northwest Frontier [India], do such conditions of disorder and contempt...
Superbly acted, with English titles to translate its polyglot dialogue, Grand Illusion's principal defect is that an occasional exaggerated attention to detail tends to retard its pace. It is notable for restoring Erich von Stroheim (a top-priced director until a combination of extravagant pictures and his own erratic temperament cut short his Hollywood career) to the screen in a more sympathetic role than those he used to play. Good shot: the moment at the dress rehearsal of a prison show when the first member of the cast tries on a woman's dress...
...detail with which the fossil is preserved will enable the hitherto impossible comparison of the sexual generation of ancient plants with that of the living relatives...
...mathematicians hope to predict how the shape of an airplane wing will affect the motion of the wind. Next practical step would be designing of a wing for more speed, safety, lift. Application of the "ergodic" theorem has proved very useful, said Dr. Wiener, rushing into a mass of detail so abstruse that not all his colleagues could understand him. Many unsolved problems on turbulent motion still remain, but Wiener's enthusiasm for harmonic analysis was so intense last week that California Tech's famed Eric Temple Bell was moved to cry: "Who will rid me of this...
...money, he ordered 365 glasses of creme de menthe, whereat the millionaires treated him as one of them. Firsthand, the funniest thing he remembers is when the left-wing press said his Tom Paine should have been written by "a competent Marxist." In a lame conclusion he tells in detail how he wrote each of his biographies, stresses above all the need for complete candor. In the light of this maxim, his own self-biography will seem to most readers a conspicuous exception...