Word: detailism
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...There were great philosophers before Jung and Freud but they couldn't put it down in books because there were no books," Bly said. "So they had to invent a story so superb in its detail that it's remembered for 2,000 or 3,000 years...
Finally, at the national conference on financial aid this July, the new IM will be unveiled, in Hudson's words, "in all its glory and excruciating detail...
...noted that so far my discussion of the different intelligences as routes to understanding important topics has been general. In The Well-Disciplined Mind, to be published next spring, I develop three examples of such understanding--the theory of evolution, the music of Mozart, and the Holocaust--in exacting detail. You noted my hesitation to claim that multiple-intelligence schools have succeeded. In fact, dozens of MI schools have reported higher test scores and other benefits. However, as a researcher I know how difficult it is to prove that such benefits are due specifically to MI ideas or practices...
...Nathan Zuckerman, Roth'sperennial almost-autobiographer. Sitting onZuckerman's deck, burning a citronella candle,they talk, for six nights, about Ira. In the firstthird of the book, the plot of Ira's life has beensketched, and what follows is Murray and Zuckermanunpacking. Murray utters his six-night fractalintensification of detail, and Zuckerman listens,rapt to elderly Murray's deposition on his deathbrother. as a teenager, Zuckerman had taken Ira onas a mentor, and Roth is at his most interestingwhen he illustrates the knee-jerk memories evokedin Zuckerman by Murray's revelations...
...several appearances at Harvard that he in no way regrets his decisions to avoid public politicking. The later collections become more and more violent and even overtly political in prose style and theme (particularly the works in The Spirit Level), but never lose their acute Keatsian awareness of detail and natural beauty...