Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a single picture documenting the mass scenes of violence, bodies hanging from trees and tanks firing in the streets. In fact, a Japanese journalist who recently spent a night or two in Canton neither saw violence nor heard shooting. The total number of deaths and the luridness of detail seem to grow as they are passed from traveler to traveler...
...riches rise to become publisher of two leading U.S. dailies, his championing of the underdog, his epic battles with William Randolph Hearst, his efforts to upgrade journalism by establishing the Pulitzer prizes. Now, for the first time, a biographer has filled in the gaps between the accomplishments in vast detail. The evidence mounts up in William Swanberg's Piditzer* that the famed publisher was a far more erratic and self-tortured personality than is generally realized...
...Clean & Paint." By far the major undertaking of Tamm's men, however, is the work they do analyzing individual police forces in excruciating detail. One recent 498-page study of New York's finest called for a complete overhaul of the organizational machinery; then it described just how the new one should be set up, from the elimination of the slot for the department's No. 2 man right down to a cutback of the city's much admired but outmoded mounted patrolmen. In another study, Boston's force was told to raise salaries, lower...
Although this passive element in Jarrell's verse seems against the American grain, he also possessed the American male's obsession with practical detail, the ritual and vocabulary of a job. His common man's delight in the way things work gave him a great technical advantage over his brother poets. This is especially notable in his war poems. Jarrell, a washed-out pilot (too old), was a dedicated pilot instructor. He wrote about war, says Poet Karl Shapiro, not as other poets "sweating out the war in uniform," but as a participant, armed with military expertise...
...trade, the de-emphasis of gold and hard currency should bring some relief. The London agreement still awaits approval, however, by the 106 nations of the International Monetary Fund, which meets later this month in Rio de Janeiro. At that time, the plan will be spelled out in further detail. Remaining to be decided, for instance, is the amount of special drawing rights to be created. Best estimate is between $1 billion and $2 billion for a start. Though small in amount, the SDRs should, nevertheless, give the fund's membership an opportunity to test the new concept...