Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protagonist of "Lover," for example, is a young doctor who becomes obsessed with a mad girl who was brought to his hospital one night battered and raped. The girl seems to symbolize for him the void that underlies his cozy bourgeois life. If it were not for one small detail that Oates adds to the story, the doctor's obsession would be noble, or at any rate much better than middle class complacency. But at the end of the story we learn that the doctor had become sexually excited while examining the girl for evidence of rape. This detail, combined...
...amount of detail that the President demands before reaching an economic decision has already become Washington legend. Aides tell stories of Carter correcting the addition of tables in the Statistical Annex, or reviewing every figure on pages dealing with farm-price supports. But in his discussions with advisers, no overall presidential economic philosophy ever emerges. Says Lawrence Klein, Carter's chief economic adviser during the campaign: "His economics are totally non-doctrine. The President's agribusiness experience in Georgia was the most important factor in developing his economic thinking...
While such attention to detail enables top management to monitor every aspect of the business, it also creates a blizzard of paper work. Concedes Chairman Bill Harrah: "The danger is that you can become overorganized and start getting answers and information that you don't really need. It's something we fight all the time." For Harrah, a quiet ex-Californian who owns 84% of the company's stock, fussing over minutiae is a hard habit to break after 40 years. Recently he ordered a hotel restaurant billboard repainted after noticing that the rack-of-lamb dinner...
...failing health, desperately wants the book to be finished, and it seems he has some grave personal stake in the matter. A series of flashbacks detail the interactions of a Communist cell in Berlin circa 1928. The major "failing" involved is a missed opportunity to kill Hitler, or so the old man perceives it. The main action in the play, excitingly enough, rotates about the writing of the book, complemented by flashbacks. Erdelyi hires a young college student, well played by Paul Jackel, to assist him, and the two suffer through an alternately close and cold relationship. But just...
Most generalizations about student governments, of course, ignore crucial distinctions between individual cases. The best way to get a line on Ivy League student government is to look at each example in detail...