Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...romanticism, realism, and humor, a combination as happy as it is rare in our time. it has a compact, simple, strong form; and a philosophic idea as its basis that ought to satisfy Mr. T. S. Eliot. On the other hand, avoiding the Joycian method of presenting every detail no matter how irrelevant, a practice apt to be boring, Mr. Hillyer achieves an impression of the fullness of life, of its completeness and reality, by a careful selection of detail and use of only that necessary, displaying all his power as an artist...
Throughout the novel hundreds of characters, as diverse as life itself, appear and reappear, and their every motive is analyzed. Proust reflects their world, which, like himself, is neurotic, tortured, and decadent. It is in the great piling up of character and detail that the overpowering effect is produced. The author knows, better than any other contemporary writer, the human mind; and he makes each character living and real. He has two primary interests: sexual perversion and social change. Few have had better subjects to show these than Proust in the Paris from 1890 till after...
...profession, O'Malley showed no greenness. His intimates say "he was born sophisticated." Within a few weeks he was roving the streets, a "space man." His first week on space netted him $72.58, princely for that day. Added to a good reporter's alertness to detail were O'Malley's Irish humor and sensitivity to pathos. Combined they made him a master of the human interest story. Also they enabled him to whip out columns of newspaper humor when news was thin. The Sun printed them at prodigious length...
Fingers have beckoned to Mother Advocate before to call her from poetry to the controversies of politics or the detail of university administration. She has never before thrown herself so rashly into the arms of her seducer. There would be cause for grief were it not for the knowledge that Mother Advocate can regain her independence by a nod, and that, being herself, she will want a change again soon...
...artistic taste was that of a bright 15-year-old boy. He loved to play soldier. Besides his valuable armor, Elmhurst was littered with Napoleonic shakos, sword belts, sashes, gold epaulets, bits of uniform. In last week's sale were a dozen battle scenes painted with iron hard detail and Noah's Ark color by 19th Century followers of Meissonier and Detaille: cavalry charges, artillery duels, the Battle of Wagram, Franco-Prussian war scenes, Renaissance gallants dueling, George III in full coronation robes, Louis XIV taking all his mistresses for a ride. There was also a barroom nude...