Word: detailism
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...true to Walsh's attention to detail, there were role players who were often equally significant. The most improbable hit in O'Donnell Field's history came when rookie infielder Faiz Shakir slapped a two-out, two-run single in the top of the ninth in the deciding third game of the 1999 Ivy League Championship Series to give Harvard a 3-2 lead and the title. Shakir had 11 career hits, 10 of them singles, at that point in the year...
...users have mentally broken down on ecstasy, unprepared for its powerful psychological effects. A schoolteacher in the Bay Area who had taken ecstasy in the past and loved it says she took it again a year ago and began to recall, in horrible detail, an episode of sexual abuse. She became severely depressed for three months and had to seek psychiatric treatment. She will never take ecstasy again...
...Check it out: In telling you that story, I made up the detail about the mechanic "not looking up from the engine"; Burns had merely suggested it, by a sort of body English, but I wanted to make my story vivid...
Technology, naturally, will be the engine. User-tracking software that records your TV- and Internet-viewing habits in minute detail--and crosses it with your purchasing history--will allow the advertiser to know that you have children, that you eat meat, that your native language is Spanish and that your dishwasher is however many years old. That way you will be shown commercials for minivans, cheeseburgers and replacement dishwashers, all in Spanish, and not for roadsters, tofu and replacement refrigerators, in English. (In fact, this technology already exists.) Refined with data that track what kinds of online ads you tend...
...Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things: knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Men approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1.) flunking out; 2.) doing work; or 3.) working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent and the second takes too long...