Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special abilities of detection, to do cloak-and-dagger and high-class special work, to live in unusual circumstances and to be exceptional men different from the common people." Now that Lo is out, says the paper, Peking's agents are mobilizing the masses for spy detail, "linking their hearts with those of the people...
...sort of work that Powell's colleague, Gunther Schuller, praises for "its fine, subtle detail-like Japanese calligraphy-which finally works up into a large, successful structure." Typically, Powell goes Schuller one better. One brief set of the pieces, he says, "can sound like The Ring of the Nibelung and can seem to last four days...
...wonder whether it was accidental that the last three offerings outside the canon have been plays about religion. At any rate, Shaw was always fascinated by the religious mentality; and, although he often touched on religion elsewhere, he examined it in detail on the stage three times in his career. The first result was The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (1909), a religious tract in the form of a romantic melodrama laid in our own Wild West. The third was Saint Joan (1923), not only Shaw's greatest play but also one of the consummate creative achievements of the twentieth...
Perhaps the biggest present-day threat to the movies, thinks Pauline Kael, is television. The movie directors who get their start on TV are too careless of detail and too enamored of closeups. The old movies shown on TV are truncated, miniaturized versions of the real thing. Growing up on a diet of TV, she is convinced, has put college kids in the habit of walking in and out of movies "as if they were providing their own commercial breaks." And no one who walks out of a good movie is a friend of Pauline Kael...
Telling Blows. It is always possible to attack a historical novel on grounds of inaccuracy and faulty detail. It is particularly difficult in this case, since there is actually very little known about Turner himself or the rebellion. But since the ultimate sources of characterizations and events in fiction lie deep in the creative unconscious, such arguments, even if historically true, border on irrelevancy. The essayists, led by John Henrik Clarke, an editor of the militant Negro magazine Freedomways, repeat the same points endlessly and separately, but this does not necessarily validate them. Nor does a reprinting of the full...