Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coldly uniformly catalogued. Neither does the past contain the key to the future or the plan of the present, for, perversely, the more it is studied the less it shows. History when glimpsed hastily or through a mirage presents an exciting panorama; carefully considered, looked at in detail, it is a drab plain, where facts lie side by side, and even the law of cause and effect is questioned. Containing examples of everything, history can teach only the lesson read into...
...dollar was yanked from 66 to 70? on foreign exchange. Left Horse Whipped. As soon as the sound-money horse got ahead, the President felt it wise to whip up his Left horse, the steed of inflation. A "high authority'' was at pains to explain in detail to the Associated Press...
...play upon it in vast and obvious fashion. By all means let us have sensational journalism; sensational as the Irish journalism of Victoria's time was sensational, for by its aid we may stimulate the populace, if not to thought, at least to passion. But the tedious recital of detail, in type however large, can only distract us from the whole; we cannot at one time court irrelevance and desire a conclusion. The direct man is not concerned with looking through the keyhole, but with opening the door. POLLUX...
Historians rarely reconstruct a world convincingly: their models may be correct to the last detail but the clockwork that runs them is modern. Really moving pictures of the past are made not by scholarship but by imagination. Authoress Waddell has resurrected the famed love-affair of Heloise and Abelard not simply by the dusting and patching of documents but by putting together many a vanished two and two. The result, as any reader may verify without benefit of historical knowledge. seems historically true. And though its horizon is ringed with the theological thunder of that far-off day, its medieval...
...week's big moment came when presiding Judge Wilhelm Bünger introduced the written confession of Defendant van der Lubbe made just after the Reichstag fire, led him to acknowledge it in open court. Point by point the bullet-headed Judge went over every detail of the fire. No longer laughing foolishly, Defendant van der Lubbe sat listlessly, head bowed, occasionally broke into foolish giggles. When prodded, he agreed. The story...