Word: detailism
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...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...
Well, Rudenstine did the unexpected. He wrote back. More specifically, he sent me an eight-page handwritten letter responding, in minute detail, to the questions I had raised...
...those on us, which sometimes recede, and those in the magazine, which separate the columns). The magazine's great lineman is Trang Ba Chuong, who every week helps supervise the delicate work of assembling on the page all its elements. The job takes great patience and an attention to detail, but some of us haven't realized how he has applied these same virtues over the past 10 years to the enormous job of getting his family out of Saigon. Two weeks ago, eight of his relatives, including his 78-year-old father and 67-year-old mother, landed...
...Binghams in the New York Times won a 1987 Pulitzer Prize and alerted publishers to the saga's dramatic potential. He and his co-author and wife, Susan Tifft, a TIME associate editor, have induced virtually all the members of this tortured family to expose seemingly every intimate detail, as if in some ritual of confession and humiliation to make up for all the years of privilege. The reader is exposed to reckless drug use and irredeemable boozing, to a daughter's experiments in group sex and a now dead son's alleged attempt at an incestuous rape -- even...
...what is a reader to make of the book at the center of this tornado? First, while Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography may be mean-spirited, it is no mean achievement. The book is exhaustively researched, packed with quotes (a surprising number of them with names attached), anecdotes and detail. To be sure, much of this is not new: Kelley mixes original quotes indiscriminately with recycled material from other books and articles, and fudges the notes at the end so the reader often cannot tell which is which. Still, much of the portrait -- Nancy's difficult relationship with her children...