Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dulles got down from an Air Force KC-135 jet transport to face a battery of cameras and microphones. Question: "Did Chiang Kai-shek agree to a reduction of forces on the offshore islands?" Dulles: "We talked about matters far more fundamental than that. That's just a detail...
VIRTUALLY everything that is known of the Soviet military is, to a large extent, what the Soviets want the world to know. But better intelligence and modern science are helping to make the West less dependent on the Soviet's handout information and on the gleanings of detail-dogging Western military attaches in Moscow. Examples...
Next, the new Camerlengo held daily meetings in the tapestried Consistory Hall with cardinals arriving from all over the world. Each cardinal had to be sworn not to reveal any detail of the papal election, and, in case he is chosen Pope, not to surrender any of the Vatican's independence. Restrictions of the Camerlengo's authority are severe; with the heads of the Sacred Congregations, he superintends whatever Vatican business may not be postponed but may not make major decisions. Sign of his office: an umbrella, ancient Oriental symbol of power, once used to represent the papacy...
...opera--but a one-act opera. Fellini has made his movie with careful attention to every detail except the patience of his audience. But his sombre exhaustiveness gives La Strada an essential truthfulness in spite of the melodramatic violence. The stark, stony backgrounds, for instance, of which we see so much: no carpenter could have put them up, no paper-mache could duplicate them. They are real...
...think Guerard justifies the whole of his interpretation here. For one thing, he is inconsistent; he speaks at one point of the "dreaming of Lord Jim"--when someone else might say "composing" and then goes on to detail the elaborate pains Conrad took over each phrase to insure total control of the material and of the reader. Guerard's combination of reverie and manipulation is difficult to accept; to be sure, Marlowe sometimes mentions--and conveys--the dreamlike quality of his tales, but we must attribute the dream to him, not to Conrad, for Guerard himself has taught...