Word: detailism
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...people who criticize the anti-harassment codes are forgetting another important detail: the reason why the codes have come into vogue. Incidents of racial violence on college campuses--physical violence--have risen sharply in the 1980s. It is in reaction to the increase in violent acts that college administrations are passing the codes. The intent is to deter some of the violence by cutting it off at its source: verbal discriminatory harassment that aims to disrupt rather than contribute to the educational environment...
...gullible reader may catch on to a colossal hint at the truth that appears roughly a third of the way through the text. No matter. This book is far more than a standard piece of genealogical sleuthing. Half its fascination lies in chapters that describe milieus rather than biographical detail. Frontier living in Tasmania when Reg was a boy, the realities of pickup vaudeville in the outback, the grim privations of war in Malta when he served there, the ins and outs of selling jewelry or newspaper ads or working military codes -- whatever the father encountered, the daughter has made...
...empires without economic justification, just for the sake, well, partly of having a big company, and partly for the sake of dealmaking. I will tell you a secret: dealmaking beats working. Dealmaking is exciting and fun, and working is grubby. Running anything is primarily an enormous amount of grubby detail work and very little excitement, so dealmaking is kind of romantic, sexy. That's why you have deals that make no sense. There's also * another rule that says if you can't run this business, buy another one. There are a lot of companies around that need...
...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...
...history may have already been rewritten. The revised account of Ulam's pivotal role appears in several new books, including a biography of Teller by Stanley Blumberg and Louis Panos to be published in February by Scribner's. And it is repeated in detail in the latest revision of the New Encyclopaedia Britannica, due out next month...