Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Public Detail. When Ike had his ileitis attack in June 1956, there were not many Americans who could boast that they had an inflammation of the lower intestinal tract in the family. It was potentially dangerous in view of the President's heart condition. Yet, curiously enough, Ike seems not to have been unduly disturbed by the attack or his operation. In the second, concluding volume of his presidential memoirs (The White House Years, 1956-61: Waging Peace), out this week, he devotes only one paragraph to that illness, recalls: "Strangely enough, although I was truly miserable for several...
...office, a minor stroke suffered in November 1957, kept him inactive for no more than 72 hours. Nonetheless, this "spasm" was clearly an awesome experience for him. In Waging Peace, a book that is generally short on personal insights and long on familiar facts, Ike discusses his reactions in detail...
...music to copy the marches and hymns of Europe. "I keep hearing bits and pieces from the Marche Consulaire," says one French African hand. The Brazzaville Congo's La Congolaise is vaguely reminiscent of La Marseillaise, and differs from the Debout Congolais of the Leopoldville Congo more in detail than in spirit: "Congolese, arise," sing the Brazzavillians, whereas Moise Tshombe's people are called upon to "Arise, Congolese...
Characterizing the new course as a large scale seminar or tutorial," Seltzer said it would involve studying "two or three works of dramatic literature in great detail, reading about 15 more which could enlarge the understanding of the major texts, and then choosing one play or production...
...Wallace out of the contest for U.S. Senator, Sparkman's chief lieutenant in the state senate, Bob Gilchrist, immediately declared that he would lead the opposition. To delay consideration of Wallace's amendment, Gilchrist introduced a pile of extraneous bills and pledged to discuss them all in detail. Wallace thus faced the embarrassing prospect, for a Southerner, of a filibuster on his own home ground...