Word: detailing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Winners and Losers is not perfect, of course. At times the detail grows tedious and redundant, at times Emerson's fervor obscures the gray areas in between those who have lost and those who have won by the war. She makes no effort to analyze the causes of the war in Vietnam; that is not her mission. Her goal is that of a reporter, to describe what has happened, and she makes little attempt to move beyond that limited role. In some ways that omission is unfortunate: the reader is left curious about the meaning of Emerson's experience about...
...hard--I learned it last night,' and then explain whatever he'd read," Glashow said. Not to be outdone, someone else would read about another topic that evening and explain it the following morning. "In this way, we certainly learned the language of physics, although nothing in detail," Glashow said...
...Lance has liberally delegated authority, unlike his predecessor, James Lynn, who pored over every budget detail. Lance has turned most of the day-to-day supervision over to Deputy Director James Mclntyre, who served as Georgia's budget director under Carter. Says Lance: "I don't want to make any decisions someone else can make. I'll wait and deal with the tough ones." Informal, he sometimes answers his own telephone. Says he: "I'll talk to anyone. It's important for me to be accessible...
Women on trial for murder in 19th century Britain and France were objects of fascination. Ladies followed every detail in the penny dreadfuls and were seen battling for tickets outside the courtroom. Victorian Novelist Eliza Stephenson observed that "women of family and position, women who pride themselves upon the delicacy of their sensibilities, who would go into hysterics if the drowning of a litter of kittens were mentioned in their hearing-such women can sit for hours listening to the details of a cold-blooded murder...
Lodge's book, covering a shorter period, and dealing with international issues in more substance than Saltonstall's, seems to be constructed mostly from letters, memos, and notes of meetings that remain in Lodge's files. As such, it may be more accurate, and is certainly written in finer detail. But the book, dwelling on the transition period between the Truman and Eisenhower administrations and, later on, Lodge's years at the United Nations, needs more definition of what material is important, and what is merely trivia. Aside from a brief conclusion exhorting the United Nations to do better, there...