Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ended too quickly for other reporters to display much individual enterprise. Yet here and there, a correspondent came up with some arresting insight or detail. Covering the war for the Chicago Sun-Times, Cartoonist Bill Mauldin reported that at least some Arabs living in Israel were content with their lot and even fearful of Nasser. Los Angeles Times Correspondent Joe Alex Morris Jr. reported from Jerusalem that the Palestinians blamed King Hussein or the Arabs in general for not fighting harder. "But at the same time, there were greetings of 'shalom' to Israeli patrols as they crept...
...some respects, Dr. Calderone is far ahead of the field. There is almost complete professional agreement that straight, frank answers should be given even to very young children, but many psychologists believe that too much detail too soon only produces confusion and anxiety. Most courses are programmed to give information gradually...
...Detail can be a useful device in reconstructing history, particularly when it is used to correct the astigmatism of adulation that most contemporary historians bring to bear on their subjects. George Washington's ivory false teeth; Gladstone's predilection for reforming London streetwalkers; Lenin's fondness for a Franco-Russian woman during his pre-Revolution exile in Paris: all these trivial addenda lend a sense of humanity to the men who made history and help relate them to the banality of history as it is lived. Yet Jim Bishop, chrome-plated chronicler of "days" in the lives...
From Dark to Light. "You know, when you go by on a train," Hopper once said, "everything looks beautiful. But if you stop, it becomes drab." Hopper recaptured the magic of his first fleeting impression by eliminating detail. His canvases are generalized, his faces chastely drawn. But if this spared him the flaws of everyday existence, it also left him detached from the hurly-burly of everyday events. Hopper's canvases are universally lonely...
...Bozo") McKee, "you sure stand to lose a hell of a lot of money." McKee was talking to negotiators from Boeing and General Electric, shortly after the terms of their FAA contract to build the U.S. supersonic transport were settled. Signed on May 1, and made public in detail last week, the contract is, according to McKee, "one of the toughest that has ever been written." It is certainly one of the biggest...