Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grand tradition of great fiction." It may be less expansively described as a half-sympathetic, half-scornful portrait of the Icelandic peasant mind, done with broad "epic" touches and special political intent. For Author Halldór Laxness uses his fine portrait, which is drawn in almost Holbein-like detail, as the text for a two-part sermon on the sins of capitalistic Iceland and the promised blessings of Marxism (he is a member of Iceland's Communist, or so-called United People's Front-Socialist, party...
...many an early Renaissance master would be unknown today, many a masterpiece unattributed. Last week, a 300-page abridgement of Vasari's Lives (edited by Betty Burroughs; Simon & Schuster; $3.75) let laymen in on some brisk reading that had previously been buried in a mass of scholarly detail. The new Lives were almost as easy going as a gossip column, and for much the same reason. Sample...
...worst as silly and hoked-up as, say, U.S. cinema's recent contribution to the biography of Frederic Chopin, A Song to Remember. The American is a sober, workmanlike job, but it suffers from the acute schizophrenia common to all work of its kind. The biographical and historical detail limit its interest as story. The choice of facts and the touches of literary fancy work limit its value as biography. Novelist Fast knows facts when he sees them, treats them respectfully, arrays most of those relating to Altgeld's career in good order. But he adds dabs...
...their stories moving ahead of their rivals, wrote "eye-witnessers" in advance. One even faked an "interview" with Bombardier Harold H. Wood, the man who dropped the bomb. ("It was like dropping a cherry on a frosted cake.") And to make it authentic, the reporter added a personal detail: "I was thrown against a bulkhead and my typewriter knocked off the table by the jarring blast...
...turn of the century he bulked big as an illustrator (and as a Hearstling pictorial reporter), sometimes earning a sensational $25,000 a year. Thirty-six years after his death, the Hearstwhile artist is now recognized for his deadeye accuracy of detail as almost a major historian. Last year A Dash for Timber was sold for $23,000. And last week a Manhattan gallery was showing 28 early black-&-white Remingtons (including eight of his 22 famed illustrations for Hiawatha...