Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flying over Soviet territory the official unlocked the cuffs and ex plained that Bukovsky would not be deprived of Soviet citizenship like Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was deported in 1974. Instead, the erstwhile convict was given a Soviet passport val id for five years of travel abroad. This final detail of Kafkaesque bureaucratic procedure amused Bukovsky. Said he: "I can still consider myself a political prisoner-but on holiday...
Your story on gambling held a strange irony for me, since it was just two weeks ago that my father, a compulsive gambler, committed suicide. I was glad to see that your article dealt in some detail with the small minority of gamblers who have the good sense to participate in treatment programs like Gamblers Anonymous, but I was surprised that you chose not to discuss the huge number of compulsive gamblers like my father, who for some reason are unwilling or unable to seek help for themselves. Compulsive gambling is cruel and self-destructive, unless the addict makes...
...energy, pacing and abundance of detail, this story resembles The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968). Wolfe's finest book and the keenest look at the psychedelic '60s yet written. These works suggest that his strongest card may not be satire at all. As entertaining as he is when he stands on the beach and points, Wolfe is most valuable when he journeys inside the whale...
...Illusions. At the NATO Council meeting, Kissinger spoke for history. In a 45-minute closed session he reviewed the state of the world and cautioned that it would be unwise for NATO to indicate in detail in advance how it would respond to a Soviet attack. By maintaining a nuclear option, NATO retains the credibility of its deterrent strength. Thus Kissinger urged the council to reject the Warsaw Pact's proposal for a treaty banning the first use of nuclear weapons and limiting the size of NATO. While warning of growing Soviet military strength, Kissinger stressed that the West...
Some find all this administrative detail annoying. "It's all so mickey-mouse," complains a woman who resigned after one meeting. "I would have stuck with it and tried to change it but I just didn't have the time...