Word: detailism
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Because it is the only meaningful talisman remaining to him after his father's death, every detail of its history becomes sacred. He constantly tries to recreate the letter's origins, to determine whether his mother knew about its existence before he found her with it, and to trace its journey from the safe where it was first kept to the desk drawer where it was after his father's death. He says, "I did not see my mother actually find the letter. Come across it; locate it. I'm building backwards again." Toward the end of the novel...
...individual, sensitivity to order often is manifested in a methodical orientation and a painstaking attention to detail, Marvin says. As musical director, he says he has known some math students whose meticulous but uninspired approach to music led them to perform "mechanically...
Kathleen M. Allen, the commissioner at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) who will ultimately decide the case, said yesterday that the commission had made what she thought would be the last batch of "interrogatories"--requests for information. Previous MCAD orders had asked for more detail on the original interrogatories sent out after Lisa J. Schkolnick '88 filed her complaint against the final club last December...
Aiken Computational Laboratories programmer Andrew H. Sudduth '83-'85 and computer science graduate student Paul Graham are the only people Morris called when the virus began to spread on the morning of November 3, and the two are expected to describe those conversations in detail...
Much of the Irish success stems from perfectionist Holtz's famous practice sessions and attention to detail. When he arrived at Notre Dame in the winter of 1986, Holtz, who had been head coach at William and Mary, North Carolina State, Arkansas and Minnesota, concentrated on molding the Irish into a clockwork mechanism. Says senior linebacker Wes Pritchett: "He gave out shirts with TEAM on them in big letters and ME in tiny letters. It sounds corny, but the message got through: everyone can't be a star, but if you tackle your assigned role with 100% effort...