Word: details
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...routine red tape difficulties familiar to all veterans, there are enough left over to keep him busy six days a week. "Just when you think you've got everything caught up and running on schedule, the top blows off some new problem and before you know it the whole detail is fouled up again," he explains...
...only 'accepts the party program, attends the regular meetings of the membership branch of his place of work,' but 'who is active in party work.' Inactivity as well as disagreement with the decisions of any party organization . . . are grounds for expulsion." For detail, Hook quoted an official party organ (The Communist, May 1937): "Communist teachers must take advantage of their positions, without exposing themselves, to give their students . . . working-class education." They must be thoroughly grounded in "Marxism-Leninism . . . inject it into their teaching at the least risk of exposure and at the same time conduct...
...Joan paintings are as rich in detail as the film, but they maintain a heroic, friezelike directness and a lightness of touch that the $9,000,000 Technicolor production seldom matches. Hollywood borrowed, but could not beat, the Corcoran's Boutet de Monvel...
...Wickford Point, which he finished next, he drew on Newburyport detail, conventionally disguised, for "a story on the various relationships of a family." Some of Marquand's own family thought he drew too close. His cousins the Hales, and Renee Oakman Bradbury decided that they had been drawn to the life, that Wickford Point itself was the old family estate of Curzon Mill. Spurred in part by a sense of having served as Marquand's models, the cousins have so far successfully blocked Marquand in a project on which he has his heart set: purchase of the whole...
...services of a good British director, Compton Bennett (The Seventh Veil), a charming, able British star, Miss Calvert, and some competent British supporting players. The result is nonetheless a poor counterfeit of the genuine product. My Own True Love lacks the virtues of the best British movies (subtle human detail, glints of gentle humor, authentic backgrounds), but it has the faults of being talky, stodgy and intolerably slow...