Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this careful and eloquent biography, the first full-length portrait of Poet Thomas ever published, Author Constantine FitzGibbon demonstrates with vivid detail that the reality sometimes outdid the legend. As a longtime friend of Dylan's, FitzGibbon is painfully aware of the flaws in his subject's character. Dylan, he says flatly, was a slob, a liar, a moocher, a thief, a two-fisted boozefighter, a puffy Priapus who regularly assaulted the wives of his best friends, an icy little hedonist who indifferently lived it up while his children went hungry. Yet at the same time, says Friend...
...University Police have decided to detail one officer every night to patrol the Cambridge side of the Weeks Memorial Bridge. The decision follows an attack made there Tuesday night on three Harvard students...
Embalmed Stage Sets. For the newer California artists the words object, assemblage and crazy seem quite fitting. According to Los Angeles County Museum Curator of Modern Art Maurice Tuchman, their emphasis on detail, however offbeat, is "a profound reaction against California as a land of lotus eaters, neon lighting and drugstore starlets." Their attainment of maturity is not at all guaranteed, but they have made craftsmanship, if not neatness of execution, a competitive goal. "They are always looking over each other's welding seams," says Hopps. "They will applaud a Paul Harris (see opposite) but criticize his stitches...
...Carre's straining for effect becomes most obvious when he writes dialogue or describes the relations between people. The early scenes seem almost cinematically brief and selective, and in the manner of a bad movie director, Le Carre tries to end most of them with a significant detail: "The Minister did not look up as they came in." "He walked slowly, like an old athlete on an old track." The portentousness is obvious, even out of context. The Spy was refreshingly pessimistic and unglamorous, but in mining the same vein further, Le Carre only comes up with heavy irony...
...these courses demand your presence in long lectures and labs, two educational devices of questionable value in which Harvard has unending faith. Small-group instruction, when available, is usually effective; lectures, on the other hand, tend to obscure general principles of their subject and confuse students with welters of detail. In general, professors do not assign reading; students are expected to dig out basic concepts on their own. It is perfectly possible to succeed with one good book and without spending the whole day in class...