Word: details
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among magazines, TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE are"too vital"to be"analyzed." Nevertheless Howe gives a short chapter to them, larded with numerous gossip-begotten errors of detail but closer to the truth than most accounts. Astonishing remark: that because Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Luce were in the Low Countries in the spring of 1940, "the editorial policy of TIME promptly underwent a sea change...
Justified or not, the conclusions are convincing. Director Ophuls injects his picture with an air of authenticity by occasionally weaving in remarkable newsreel shots of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in action-its soldiers, palaces, pomp. The death ride at Sarajevo (TIME, July 3, 1939), vividly reconstructed, includes such precise detail as the abortive attempt at assassination during the parade to the City Hall, the Archduke's angry retorts to the Mayor's friendly welcome, the confusion over changing the return route of the parade...
...week socialites, college presidents (including Vassar's Henry Noble MacCracken), 250 devoted old Rosemarians. They found Miss Ruutz-Rees in nominal retirement, two new co-headmistresses in charge. But there was no doubt who was boss. At 73, Miss Ruutz-Rees still taught her English classes, supervised every detail of the celebration...
Down to the last detail of posture and strut, Miss Hayes would have pleased even Shakespeare. Perhaps he might have thought her occasionally too gentle for some rougher moments, but then the audience, too, refused to roar in the old Elizabethan abandon at some of his slickest puns and sexy jokes. Malvolio, the perfect fop from curtain to curtain, is a much narrower part than Viola's. But every opportunity for satire, characterization and even, in spots, sincere drama, is exploited by Maurice Evans so completely that we are fortunate the part is in the hands of the "master...
...members of my race, stating that Mr. Willkie is opposed to the welfare of the Negro. In my small way I have been walking and talking and telling my people that these rumors are false. It would make a business letter far too lengthy if I went into detail about the facts and difficulties encountered in attempting to get articles published in any of the Negro publications. I will give you the facts about myself and my connections with the Willkie family...