Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fatal Faith. Age difference aside, Royster and Morris share a similar Southern outlook. They have an eye for the out-of-kilter detail, the endearing eccentricity that redeems even an opponent. Royster is a conservative, Morris a liberal; yet the politics of both are mellowed by an appreciation of human quality. Though he disagreed with many of Adlai Stevenson's views, Royster saluted his concession speech ("Too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh") in 1952: "I think that nothing better revealed in Mr. Stevenson a quality for leadership than the manner of his yielding...
...convenience of Dudley men who were placed on probation on the strength of evidence other than eye-witness identification, and particularly those not present at the meeting in the Junior Common Room on 1 November, I want to report in detail my actions at the Administrative Board meetings of 26, 30 and 31 October insofar as those acts concern Board action affecting...
...investigate this last question--University complicity in the war--poses serious problems of civil liberties and their protection. If a committee along the lines proposed by Hoffmann were given full rope, its sessions might assume a HUAC-like character, with Faculty members being compelled to testify in great detail about their own, and their colleagues', research...
...worse as a piece progressed, and I found in myself the unusual desire that the orchestra retune. In all three works, the orchestra tended to run out of steam in the second or third movement. Each piece started out very much in control, full of life and interpretive detail, and then gradually slithered into slippiness and insecurity...
...could not have branded myself as any more anti-intellectual than if I had said, 'Me Tarzan. You Jane.' " At Kansas State University, where he was this year's Alfred M. Landon lecturer, Reagan (B.A. Eureka College, 1932) went on to spell out-in greater detail than ever before-his views on the purposes and problems of higher education...