Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strong-minded men stated strong-minded opinions, and for the most part they differed only in detail and in intensity. Rear Admiral Ralph Ofstie, in his younger days one of the Navy's hottest pilots, a wartime carrier commander, Navy member of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey of Japan and of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Evaluation Group at Bikini, declared that atomic area bombing would be little more than "random mass slaughter" and militarily unsound. Strategic bombing, he said, did not have a decisive effect in World War II. Cried Ofstie, "It is time that strategic bombing...
...learn about Asia's key man. Nehru has been a somewhat nebulous figure, graceful and great, "a jewel among men" as his master Mahatma Gandhi said, but vaguely seen and known. Now, after two years as Prime Minister of free India, he is emerging in sharp and colorful detail. The cultured patriot with the Cambridge accent, luminous eyes and magnetic smile who spent 13 of his 60 years in British jails has become the Orient's unoriental, supercharged public executive...
People's Example. No Nehru characteristic is more striking than his determination to set a personal example for his people, to teach them face to face, to guide every detail of their new national life...
Britain is not even building high-altitude rockets, let alone space ships. But this practical detail does not bother the thriving organization of imaginative zealots called the British Interplanetary Society, whose purpose is "development of interplanetary exploration and communication." Last week the B.I.S. had a record 580 members, including such philosophical well-wishers as George Bernard Shaw. The most active members are scientists from Britain's great research laboratories. Said one of these undauntedly: "So far, the whole [high altitude rocket] program is American. We cannot afford to sponsor direct development. But even if we have nothing but pencil...
Kazan has directed an artfully balanced script (by Dudley Nichols and Philip Dunne) with a heavy poetic atmosphere and shrewd attention to dramatic detail. He has pumped conflict into every scene and sustained the excitement throughout even the talky stretches...