Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these times when employers cannot ask questions about age, sex, religion, sexual orientation, etc., and cannot discriminate because of these factors, I find it ironic that so much detail on these matters was covered in your profiles of the candidates in Jimmy Carter's great talent hunt. I particularly find it offensive that it is important to know that one candidate married a farmer's daughter or that Blumenthal's parents were nonpracticing Jews. Isn't there enough to establish credentials without this? A person should be weighed on his merits and not on matters...
Harris and Nochlin, in fascinating detail, show exactly how it could-and did: the social conditions that militated against women's becoming "fine" artists during the Renaissance, the restrictions on literacy, training, access to professional company and guilds, the peculiar moral shibboleths, the stereotype of the cultured woman as accomplished dabbler, engaged in what George Eliot called "small tinkling and smearing." "Let men busy themselves with all that has to do with great art," trumpeted one French critic in 1860. "Let women occupy themselves with those types of art that they have always preferred, such as pastels, portraits...
...have turned to looking at what happened to the idealists who thought in the '60s that there was really going to be a revolution in our lifetime. Books like Ann Beattie's Chilly Scenes of Winter or Medved and Wallechinsky's What Really Happened to the Class of '65 detail the survivor's attempts to find a niche in a world they have rejected, a way to go on living now that the rebellion has failed to initiate substantial social change...
...fifty-fifty with European yards. The Japanese refused, and clung to that position in talks last week with a European delegation that visited Tokyo. The Europeans, in response, have set two new deadlines: Japan must offer an acceptable compromise on shipbuilding by mid-January, and must detail an overall plan to reduce its trade surplus before the next Common Market summit meeting in February...
Slipping Puttees. Even after the German invasion, Chonkin's idyl continues. His unit has shipped out and forgotten him. But a district policeman suspects that Chonkin may be a Nazi spy-perhaps even a White Russian general about to lead a counterrevolution. When a detail is sent to arrest him, Chonkin refuses to abandon his post. Uproarious chaos, slapstick and barnyard antics ensue...