Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long since learned that befuddlement is the better part of valor. Last week the Senate Agriculture Committee's twelve-year chairman had the unenviable task of introducing the Administration's 1965 farm bill. "I ask Senators," said he, "not to pin me down to too much detail." Would the bill solve the problems of U.S. agriculture? "If I were able to do that," allowed Ellender, "I would not be in the Senate. I would be Somewhere Else...
...turned out, these precedents were not followed. In late May Harvard announced that it would retain Furry even though he had taken the fifth. Despite the massive framework of detail and technicalities which the University used to justify its position, the significance of the decision was broad and striking. Harvard had affirmed that it alone had the right to judge the fitness of its teachers and that no blanket rule could legitimately be used in deciding such a crucial question as whether a professor would retain his tenure. Harvard's action reversed a trend which had been the cause...
When complaints do become specific, they usually refer to a particular experience, when a diagnosis was wrong or a student was in extreme danger. The Health Services is invariably able to discuss the difficulty in presise detail and explain the problem quite reasonably. But as Dr. Farnsworth points out, anyone is likely to blame even his family doctor for an error, and the frame of mind induced by a communal medical setup only tends to exaggerate the anger...
...from Hussein. By this year all was ready, and the plot was scheduled for the end of July during the regime's 13th anniversary celebrations. It seemed thorough in every detail. Hussein Tawfic, a veteran terrorist who had successfully rubbed out one of King Farouk's finance ministers, was put in command of a select group assigned to blow up Nasser in his motorcade. If he failed, other brothers were ready to blast Nasser off his presidential train somewhere between Cairo and Alexandria, and still others were prepared to shoot him on the way to his home...
...gate into the snowy darkness. Among them was Primo Levi, a young Italian Jew who had been interned for two years at Auschwitz and the nearby slave-labor camp of Buna-Monowitz. In an earlier book, If This Is a Man, Chemist-Sociologist Levi recalled his imprisonment in chilling detail. In this reflective sequel, he tells of his arduous return to life. With jovial inefficiency, the Russians shunted him from camp to camp, finally sent him off on a ramshackle freight train that wandered erratically for 33 days across six countries before setting him down at last in sunny Italy...