Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relating to the examples of research grant misuse cited in the O'Brien letter in order to clear up doubts raised as to the efficiency and propriety of Harvard's handling of government monies. University Hall has promised to publish a financial administration manual this fall explaining in explicit detail the nuances of administering federal funds to both faculty deans and department heads, but the manual has yet to appear in completed form. Harvard must release this manual immediately if researchers are to understand when they are conforming to the provisions of an awarded grant and when they stand...
Like its hero, The Honourable Schoolboy is all too obviously imperfect. In his effort to detail the slow, agonizing life of the aging spy, le Carre has gone overboard, producing a novel of epic proportions that conveys a theme of only moderate importance. What begins as a portrait of tired, dirty, washed-out and disillusioning reality becomes a frequently tedious chronicle of flatulent, hemmorhoidal and unnecessarily repulsive dreariness. The author uses a bludgeon when a tap on the shoulder would suffice--and heavy-handedness goes beyond his unsubtle attempts to expose the spy game. Le Carre's blatant symbolism...
...even while he lived intimately with these young men--at 23, Herr was older than most of the Americans in Vietnam--Herr was conscious of the tension between them and himself. In "Colleagues," one of the essays in Dispatches, he examines a thought that he describes in less detail in several other essays. Unlike the draftees, the correspondents in Vietnam were volunteers, making their careers off the soldiers' battles, and the soldiers were always aware of it. In the back of their minds, Herr writes, all the correspondents were looking for the ultimate war movie, and it took them some...
Herr's essays concentrate on the troops, on the soldiers' reactions to the war in which they found themselves. Because he had no need to pass along official statements to his readers, he could describe the soldiers' lives in detail, describe the kind of tension and privation that brutalized them. And he could show how the higher command failed miserably to provide adequate support for their troops, because the officers believed their own lies about kill ratios, retreats, urbanization, and a friendly civilian population. At Khe San, for instance, the "grunts" knew they were being placed in a death trap...
Still, Marina was not quite the typical battered wife. She was Oswald's mate, in the strict sense of the term. The squalid tale of their symbiotic relationship - told in excruciating detail by McMillan - makes it difficult to imagine Lee with out Marina. When he proposed to her, she was the belle of the Minsk Culture Palace dance hall and, at 20, a full-grown shrew...