Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nuts & Bolts. When he first hove into Washington, McNamara left congressional committees speechless with his matchless grasp of detail. Said Pennsylvania's Democratic Representative Daniel Flood: "I had the impression that if we would ask the secretary for the number of nuts and bolts in Warehouse No. 1, drawer 7, Fort Dix, he most probably could tell us." But Congressmen soon became resentful of overwhelmingly documented proposals that left little room for debate; nor was McNamara's popularity on Capitol Hill burnished by his abrasive style and transparent impatience with congressional dillydallying...
...commanders in Viet Nam have a far different problem. It is their difficult task to conduct a growing war against the Communists and at the same time avoid killing or wounding civilians-a mission spelled out in some detail by U.S. General William Westmoreland to U.S. forces in Viet Nam last July. "It is imperative that all our officers and men," said Westmoreland, "understand the importance of minimizing noncombatant casualties whenever possible." Easier said than done in a guerrilla war that often makes the innocent the willing or unwilling neighbors of the enemy...
...Hamp, a young cobbler from Islington, the only survivor of his World War I platoon. He is a prisoner in a dugout cell, waiting to be tried for desertion, while outside rumble the guns of the Passchendaele offensive. Picking his way past a detail that is digging out a flooded latrine comes the officer assigned to defend the deserter: correct, unsmiling Captain Hargreaves...
...special authority: Director Losey's use of a bunch of privates as a kind of action chorus to comment on the development of the drama; his staging of a symbolic game of drunken blindman's buff in Hamp's cell before he is executed; the awful detail of Hamp's death, which underscores the movie's ruthless dissection of Britain's caste system...
Andras Hamori is less fun to read, but his imagery is invariably exact, and the moods he maintains are more demanding than Miss Faerstein's. John Morgan's sinuous and complicated poem, "Mississippi," fails unless the reader retraces its rather flat lines several times. It contains a lot of detail unnecessary to its message or tone...