Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This schematic--burlesque might be closer to it--is unfair; for all the information is not at hand at the play's start. Miss Hellman lets out detail at a rate that preserves suspense. The virtue of the play is that she makes the discovery of truth a corporate venture. It is as though a vapor of mis-perception hangs over the cast, settling on one character, then another, to be hurled upward in anguish by the other players...
...Detail for Detail. That hint of arrogance hurt Stokes. His campaign manager, Dr. Kenneth Clement, was to rue later: "A lot of people who did not like the idea of a Negro mayor were waiting for an excuse to vote against him." It was not merely an error but a near calamity. In the early opinion polls Stokes had led Taft by 30 points and more. Now he was running scared. He dropped his supercilious needling and swung into substantive issues. To answer his opponent's charge that he had been a poor legislator, Stokes produced a testimonial that...
Stokes began to match Taft detail for detail. He promised to combat the crime rate (up 14% last year) by increasing the police patrol-car force one-third, expand the airport with already available fill, eliminate a particular traffic bottleneck on Baltic Road ("the Baltic Blockade"), which, conjectured Stokes, costs a 20-year commuter 100 days off his life. He announced plans for an inaugural ball to raise money for clothing for children of relief families. Even with a skillful advertising campaign, a large and capable biracial campaign staff and a regiment of 2,000 door knockers, Stokes...
...increase, which is not, as Chairman Gardner Ackley of the White House Council of Economic Advisers quipped last week, "the complete remedy for every ill including the common cold." But Ackley, from rostrums in Los Angeles and Manhattan, spelled out the Administration's case in somber detail. Without higher taxes, he warned, the nation faces "potentially serious trouble" with "price increases and soaring interest rates." On top of that, Ackley forecast "a deteriorating trade balance and new weakness in housing alongside a possibly unhealthy boom in investment, inventories or even consumer spending on durable goods." A tax surcharge, Ackley...
...with their wrought-iron sides and champagne-colored plush, found one of the two manufacturers in the world who still make the old carbon-filament bulbs that gave the theater its soft, golden glow. He came across a piece of the original carpet, had it copied to the last detail. Rummaging through the basement, he found crates containing six stained-glass windows thought to have been designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, who had worked on the Auditorium as an 18-year-old apprentice, and who, to his dying day, considered the hall to be "the greatest room for music...