Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gargantuan labors with Samuel Butler's classic line, "Poets by their sufferings grow," Manchester's writing falls far short not only of poetry but often of good prose. But all this is rendered comparatively irrelevant by his basic achievement, which was to assemble an overwhelming mass of detail-so much detail that the story becomes larger than life or death. For no one normally ever has that much information about any event, not even an event in one's own life...
...people's warnings and premonitions. Manchester approaches Dallas and the underpass near the Texas Schoolbook Depository Building at an excruciatingly slow pace and with innumerable sidetrips. But then the horrendous drama takes hold of the reader all over again. It is not so much that Manchester's details bring new significance to the event; it is rather that the event itself seems to infuse even the most unimportant detail with meaning...
Nonetheless, a note of optimism permeated the conference. "There are many signs that we are at a favorable turning point," the President said at the outset. That theme was elaborated in detail as U.S. and South Vietnamese officials met on Nimitz Hill, the U.S. naval headquarters overlooking the Philippine Sea. Also in clear view from the spacious verandas on the Hill was a tangible reminder of the larger stakes-and risks-in the Viet Nam war: the Soviet trawler Gidrofon, laden with electronic snooping gear, lying just beyond the three-mile limit in order to monitor U.S. B-52 flights...
Still in the 1800s. At earlier meetings, Johnson's flying squad heard Maryland officials complain about book-thick federal regulations, going into such "ridiculous" detail as one by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare demanding that nursing homes have doors exactly 4 ft. 2 in. wide. In Kansas, Superintendent of Motor Vehicles L. A. Billings railed against a flood of complicated directives on highway safety: "We have your 13 directives-any one of which would take five years to implement. And you want us to tell you how we'll meet them in one month...
...naturalistic plane, the story is relatively easy to adapt. It merely describes in numbingly minute detail a few ordinary things that happen on June 16, 1904, in the lives of three people in Dublin: a young poet-teacher named Stephen Dedalus (Maurice Roeves), a middle-aged Jewish ad salesman named Leopold Bloom (Milo O'Shea) and Bloom's erogenous wife Molly (Barbara Jefford). Joyce overlaid his simple story with symbolic parallels, some mythological and some psychological, that are more difficult to photograph. Stephen, for example, is Telemachus, Bloom is Ulysses, Molly is Penelope, and the events...