Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Head of the Army quartermaster corps in World War I, he liked to urge fellow executives to "Charge!" Enamored of detail, he pored over endless reams of census and population statistics while gobbling caramels - cellophane wrappers and all. Out of all that charging and chewing came a discovery that still shapes U.S. merchandising. "Imagine it," Wood recalls. "The country was filled with talk about the automobile. Henry Ford was making shopping mobile; yet not a single retailer saw what the impact would be." Except for Retailer Wood, that is. Reckoning future population trends on the basis of his own census...
...rooted as it is in Jewishness and the urban environment, may appear to have only specialized appeal, but Roth gives it a universality that reaches beyond ethnic boundaries. It is a coda of rage and savagely honest self-lashing reminiscent of the performances of the late Lenny Bruce. No detail is varnished, no lust or act nice-Nellied as Portnoy complains, clowns and laments in his desperate efforts to claw his way to sanity. The result is a spontaneous emotional release of enormous authenticity and power...
Both pieces require agile playing and close attention to detail (the Stravinsky also demands strong nerves). Mr. Corley's emphasis on discipline paid off, and the orchestra was thoroughly successful on its own! Despite attacks of imprecision, the strings and winds together were able to spin out Ravel's beautiful net of sound. In the Stravinsky, the orchestra avoided most of the hazards and played most of the notes where they lay. Stravinsky did the rest...
Avoiding Division. While his reception in Indiana was unexpectedly emotional, Nixon himself was characteristically cool in his second radio address on the problems of the city and the Negro. Spelling out in detail the broad programs he had outlined the week before, he stressed the need for tax credits and other relatively inexpensive Government incentives to encourage industry to build in the slums and rural poverty areas. "The old ways have failed," he said. "The crisis of the old order is not the crisis of today...
...city's outskirts. Says the American architect, Peter Harnden, who has been hired by Barcelona's Society of the Friends of Gaudi to help restore the building to Gaudi's original design: "It is a continuing surprise and delight to me, so rich in detail that I find something new each time I visit it." The recent discovery of a long-lost cache of Gaudi drawings in a factory shaft may enable Harnden and his associates to enrich the crypt with still more Gaudi delights...