Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Philosophy cannot and need not make sense to the layman in every detail; excerpts from Aristotle or Hegel (or, for that matter, Einstein) may also seem like gibberish to the uninitiated. But it is significant that the analytic and phenomenological thinkers don't even understand one another...
...LOCKWOOD CONCERN, by John O'Hara. The "concern" is that of the tough, grasping Lockwoods of eastern Pennsylvania, who want to turn themselves into gentlemen but don't want to give up the morals of the coal patch. The period detail is meticulous, but the book as a whole, like most of the author's long novels, will be useful principally to the reader who wants to commit O'Hara-kiri...
...house where Lara and her mother's self-seeking lover (Rod Steiger) generate the first sparks of scandal. After the revolution, a train carries Yuri, his wife Tonya (Geraldine Chaplin) and his family away to the relative safety of the Urals; and Lean bears down on every detail of their flight across an endless white snowscape in which ordinary human values seem suddenly locked in deep freeze...
...learned to clamp those teeth on its enemies and live to bite an other day. Its secret is circuitous attack; it never charges an opponent headon. Stories begin disarmingly: "We of course deny ... It would be false to say . . ." Then they deliver what they are denying in spectacular detail. Thus the Duck gets away with printing stories no other paper dares touch. Once a Deputy not beloved by the Duck sent the paper a letter full of gamy information about government officials. What to do? The Duck solved the problem by running a photocopy of the letter. When a politician...
...wandered the five continents in search of the intractable, in search of a beauty unbefriending and the poetry of the passing strange. Travel is her profession, and her art is the art of snapshot. Her poems are bright slides that commemorate in gloating color and big-pored detail the places she went, the things she saw, the tiny epiphanies of passage. They are very few and very fine. In Poems: North and South-A Cold Spring (1954), her volume of collected verse, there are only 48 poems, but they include some of the finest descriptive poetry produced since World...