Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...implies the CRIMSON's errors to be infinitely greater in import than they really are. Since I was the particular focus of an intense and personally exhausting controversy in the department, I confess I felt momentarily intimidated, and so added my name to an explanation the length and punctilious detail of which makes for an air of fearful apology I think was completely uncalled for. The fact that the students knew Professor Levin was writing his won letter, and the fact as well that some had even seen it, makes one wonder what emotion prompted the second reply. To whom...
Twenty compensatory education projects identified by researchers as having "produced significant achievement" among educationally deprived children are described in detail in a series of 20 booklets issued by the U.S. Office of Education...
...Walls allows one indistinguishable chapter to fade into another. The story becomes a deja vue recounting of yet another round of position papers, unsure negotiations, and Rudd's explitives. The magnified detail often amuses--the story relates solemnly in a footnote how one of the authors was mistaken for an SDS negotiator and was handed a piece of rope. He hid it, he records for history, under a pile of monographs where it was soon forgotten...
...aware that the lives of the great mass of men are lost to us: their loves and hopes, their very selves seem irretrievable. "When I think of antiquity," George Orwell says, "the detail that frightens me is that those hundreds of millions of slaves on whose backs civilization rested generation after generation have left behind them no record whatever. We do not even know their names...
...subjects are so gruesome, but the mood of the medium pervades even prints of an ordinary city street. The force of black line and the amount of detail packed into small rectangle zaps the prints with intensity. Contemporary colorists like Morris Louis could not exist in this world of black and brown. In an extreme example, "Effet de Nuit," cross-hatched lines form a network of fog and on a spot of page glows on he horizon. Maniacal rendering of cracks in a stone wall with pinpoint line adds to the peculiarity of the medium...