Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Manchester indulges himself in a welter of detail so massive, confusing, and personal that one is forced to gape instead of emphathize--or remember. The poignant moments--like John Kennedy Jr.'s salute to his dead father outside of St. Matthew's Cathedral--are preserved. Utterly absurd events are related as well, but Manchester won't allow them to stand for themselves. He adds his own brand of brutal interpretation. He spends, for example, eight pages relating the difficulty Kennedy's staff had when they attempted to leave Parkland Hospital with the President's body and return quickly to Washington...
...Cantata Singers are one of those rare organizations that take their name seriously. In a concert of three cantatas of J. S. Bach, they produced a more professional sound than any group performing regularly at Harvard. The clarity they gave to every detail of polyphony, the precision of their runs and enunciation, and their rich, vibrant tone made listening to them a sensual pleasure...
When the killer came to his eighth and final victim, pretty, blonde Gloria Davy, 22, he flattened her on the bed across from the one under which Miss Amurao was hiding. In agonizing detail, the witness described a rape that lasted 20 or 25 minutes. None of the other girls had apparently been sexually assaulted and, curiously enough, even the coroner's inquest on Gloria Davy had not revealed any clinical evidence of rape. That one fact seemed to indicate the motive and the madness of the killer, a man who may have been impotent, yet so desperate...
...Truman rightly observed -- it will be a losing party. And while Democrats, from time to time, will unquestionably try the experiment of running without liberal support, they will, as invariably in the past, lose. Not only do liberals have votes, and this in an election is not an unimportant detail, but we have more votes each year. And more important than votes we have political energy. Nothing ever presents such a picture of collapse--as Averell Harriman observed many years ago--as a Democratic campaign in which the liberals are sitting on their hands...
...result is a stinging book that not only documents Kiev murders but also describes in detail the microcosm of a boy's world dissolving into unspeakable and incomprehensible patterns of horror. Each day was a constant obsession with the search for a crust of bread, the feverish reading of newspapers and posted orders for fresh fiats, since a nuance missed meant death...