Word: detailism
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There is one story Yager will tell you every last detail of, though, and it is the one that explains why this doctor's wife, who used to spend her Southern days with lady friends at teatime socials, is out here risking lawsuits and maybe even jail time...
...stores. Every citizen must serve in a kind of workers' army in which all get the same pay. In lieu of financial incentives there is patriotism and "passion for humanity." People marry each other only for the finest moral and physical qualities; the race has been "purified." A minor detail symbolizes the collectivist ideal: when it rains, canopies are lowered over the streets, replacing everyone's individual umbrella...
...balance, technological forecasts have often proved remarkably accurate, in outline if not in detail. By contrast, the political forecasts--whether the dreams of brotherhood or the nightmares of Big Brother--have been far more dubious...
...deal, you might think. Tuxedos are uncomfortable, it was a warm May evening and Harvard students are working themselves to the bone during spring reading period. It's true that none of these detail seems outstanding at first glance, and when I first saw the picture I simply shrugged off my miserable looks to bad timing...
...woman shot one by one as they were tied to stakes with black hoods over their heads. Some of the 18 other executions in provincial towns were attended by children -- high school students in some towns were even given the day off to attend. Perhaps the most macabre detail of the spectacle was the black target placed on the chest of each condemned person -- their executioners, after all, fired from less than a yard away...