Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...research and checking system. This grew in part out of the drive to get enough facts to "make the news make sense" and in part out of writers' hunger for the kind of detail that would make a story "live." (It may also have been called forth by such early errors as those cited in the footnotes in col. 1, page...
...hours it needs to present the news with sense-making background. That the news in TIME reaches the reader later than newspapers or radio might bring it is an obvious disadvantage to him. Only if its presentation of news is better than the newspaper reports (i.e., sharper in detail, keener in insight, easier to read, understand and remember), can TIME overcome the disadvantage of being "late." When the advantage outweighs the disadvantage, TIME has a value; when it doesn't, TIME hasn't. That is the challenge that forces TIME'S staff to work under an hour...
...Elson, numbered about 15, one of the largest groups of reporters TIME Inc. had ever sent to one place. Their job was not to add to the din, but to place each week's report in a perspective that fitted the facts, and to report the kind of detail that got over to the reader the real character of the conference...
...prison, finally fled over the frontier (leaving still another mistress behind him). His sister and her lover, accompanied by a girl engaged to be married, joined him in Switzerland. Mirabeau seduced the other girl. A queer conflict developed with his sister -he wrote to his mistress of her in detail that admitted of incestuous relations; the letter fell into the hands of her father; she became the most rabid of all the enemies who pursued...
Gollancz concentrates on two major social phenomena which he feels most markedly violate his creed of Christian love: the practices of the Stalin dictatorship and the Allied occupation policy in Germany. In great detail he explores the "specialized idealism" of Stalin's followers, that double-bookkeeping morality which permits them to engage in the most immoral activity precisely because they are sincerely convinced that they work in behalf of a liberating cause. "A communist spy is particularly dangerous ... not because he's a scoundrel but because...