Word: details
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quiet way, an ambitious novel, Summer's Lease is disappointing, not in its needle-sharp detail but in its diffuseness. The writing, generally deft, hovers too often between good prose and bad poetry. But as the record of an inquisitive intelligence set down with humor and clarity, the diffuseness is of minor importance, and the sharp observation counts. Summer's Lease is an unusually rich and readable second-grade book...
...retained 100 picturesque acres in the heart of Memphis-one half being virgin woods with massive oaks 250 years old. As additional compensation to us, the State and City built a scenic parkway through our tract 100 ft. wide, ¾ mile long, complete in every detail, costing them $175,000. So Old Tom didn't lose much of his family's inheritance by the tax litigations after...
There is little to be gained in singling out the salient details of the film; every feature is outstanding. The scenes are only rivalled by the acting. We have never despised a woman more than Scarlett, nor loved one more than Melanie. We thought perhaps breeding would tell, but for all his Twelve Oaks Ashley is a coward, and despite the Old South, Rhett is not. Each character is faithful to Miss Mitchell's book, and it is these characters which made the book. Although in any large production one expects the main people to be well-done...
Meantime, the British censorship last week released for the first time (more than two months after they were taken) photographs made by Royal Air Force reconnaissance planes over Germany. For clarity and detail they suffered by comparison with what Germany has shown of its air views of Great Britain (TIME...
...what trouble followed Sept. 1929 few U. S. citizens need to be told. Mr. Allen tells it with enough street-corner detail to suggest its charms. In 1930-31, for instance, steamship lines began running week-end cruises, or saturnalia, outside the Twelve Mile Limit. Apple salesmen shivered on wintry corners. Free wheeling was added to necking as a thing to do with cars. Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries ("Don't take it serious, it's too mysterious"*) expressed the nonchalant response to Depression. Bobby Jones had a Manhattan triumph after winning the British Amateur...