Word: detailism
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...July 24, the convention named a five-man Committee of Detail to sort everything out and draft a coherent summary of all the votes. It gave the committee nine days to accomplish this, and then adjourned. Washington went fishing for trout. When the committee duly presented its report, the newly returned delegates began wrangling about how, if they ever got a constitution finished, it should be ratified and put into effect...
...Taken in bulk, The Federalist can be heavy going for the lay reader, with its sometimes intricate marshaling of closely reasoned arguments. Madison rated it "admissible as a School book if any will be that goes so much into detail." But the brilliance of the best individual essays remains undiminished. Madison's own masterly "Federalist No. 10," for example, took issue with the received wisdom of his day that the Government would be threatened by the mutually hostile factions with which a sprawling America appeared dangerously overloaded. By their very number and variety, Madison argued, the factions would support...
Above all, the English prototypes were there to study, so that in the 18th century American furniture makers and metalworkers could achieve the freedom and finesse of detail, the robustness of design that come only from full historical awareness tempered by regional shop practice and local material. Thus they invented forms peculiar to America, like the deeply carved blockfront desk with shell motifs made by Townsend and Goddard in Newport, R.I. But American neoclassical "constitutional" furniture radiates a sense of lightness and straightforwardness; it rejects excess decor as a sign of cultural effeminacy. The rococo did not suit the democratic...
...white basketball type to the racial undertones black players read into everything. "If I was black," Cousy says, "I would be H. Rap Brown. No, I would be dead." Neglected in all the euphoric stories of Bird's series-saving steal in the semifinals against Detroit was the minor detail that an indiscreet drive by Bird had given the Pistons the ball in the first place. Then last week in the finals, when he almost pulled out a critical Laker game with his dramatic three-pointer, the sequence that immediately preceded it -- including an especially ill-chosen shot...
...move away from detail "came about at the same time as responsibility for the day-to-day functions has been given to the administrative people since they know more about it," says Heiskell, who is retiring from the Corporation this year...