Word: details
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proof. Allport revealed," that enemy agents are often given information by propaganda broadcasts. Every once in a while we hear a queer sounding program that isn't the usual sort of propaganda." As an example of this practice, Allport told of a program recently broadcasted from Berlin, describing in detail a track meet. This may well have been a code message, he believed, addressed to spies in America...
...Navy's shake-up gave "Rey" King an operations staff to cut him free of detail. This staff will be headed by Rear Admiral Frederick Joseph Home, a naval aviator, a policy maker. And the gold aviator's wings on his blue blouse will not be the only ones around that table...
Every rational detail in the book, from their fantastic hardheadedness to their still more fantastic menus, suggests that the King is right. Also suggested is the growing possibility that the author of This Above All (TIME, April 21) may yet become what the world has lacked for two genera tions: a major popular novelist...
People Under Hitler is a convenient handbook for people who are not, and who wish to know in detail how lucky they are. Since Author Deuel has drawn on some 20 other books for much of his information, it lacks novelty, but not force. Some facts about the Nazi way of life: > Hitler said: "The program of our national socialist women's movement has only one point. That point is called the child." That has meant the almost total banishment of women from public office, their withdrawal from professions in favor of cannonfoddering and such "womanly" vocations as domestic...
...first success with a whole series of similarly lucid, polished and quaintly literal canvases. Studying the grim, stalwart Iowa farmers and their neatly fenced fields, Grant Wood got what he called the "decorative quality of American newness" into his canvases. He thumbed over mail-order catalogues to get every detail of his farm machinery just right. He exchanged the blurred-landscape technique of the Impressionists for an almost photographic preoccupation with homely detail: the designs of wire fences, overall seams, the rickrack braid on Iowa farm dresses. Some of his pictures (Daughters of Revolution, Dinner for Threshers, Arbor Day) became...