Word: detailism
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...immenseness, the jocular enormity.” Luminous perfect phrases like “jocular enormity” stud the book like jewels (Johnson on the first atomic bomb test: “the orange fireball levitating amid its electric-blue halo”). The inventiveness, the eye for detail, and the understated irony of Johnson’s prose make for vibrant, rhythmic writing that would be compelling even without its off-center subjects...
...Rudenstine's staff assistant Beverly B. Sullivan sent a letter yesterday addressed to the PSLM members occupying Mass. Hall to detail her complaints with the continuing...
...team of killers) who went to enormous trouble to duplicate mummification techniques and the ancient cuneiform writing. Saleem ul Haq, director of Karachi's archaeology department, is convinced the perpetrator of the fraud is "definitely someone who has links to archaeology." But as good as his attention to detail may have been, it wasn't good enough. The first clue: South Asia's ancient civilizations had no tradition of mummification. Also, at Karachi's National Museum, where the mummy was stored, fungus began to grow on the body. Still, given the humidity of Pakistan's southern port megacity, a moldy...
PSLM made their decision after long deliberation, four-hour-long meetings and the failure of their previous attempts to meet with and compromise with University officials. They planned this action carefully, down to the detail of not carrying in their keys in case they could be construed as weapons. In no way can they be seen as vacationers, or face the accusation that the Harvard strikers did in 1969 that they were just trying to extend spring break...
Perlstein’s attention to detail is part of that resurrection. Amusing anecdotes appear often throughout the book, helping along a text which, while well-written, could have been significantly shorter and just as effective. If a politician was militant and conservative in the postwar era, the reader quickly learns, then he was automatically labeled another “Hitler.” While driving to work, Charlton Heston suddenly converts to Goldwaterism. Writes Perlstein, “Looking up at an ‘In Your Heart, You Know He’s Right’ billboard...