Word: details
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...collaboration with three prominent psychiatrists, and experts claim that it is accurate and typical. It nevertheless remains artistically the weakest part of the picture. Perhaps if King Lear or Hamlet had been written with the assistance of three prominent psychiatrists, the great tragedies would have bogged down in clinical detail and collapsed under the weight of father complexes and mother fixations...
...copies in Germany alone. Although it is slightly slanted to glorify the Russian Army and was extremely useful as anti-Nazi propaganda, it is still the only book of any note which describes any part of the recent war through German eyes. Whether it is historically accurate in every detail is open to question, but the fact remains that it presents the Wagnerian holocaust of the battle for Stalingrad with the pitiless realism of a newsreel camera and yet the subtlety of a skilled playwright...
...been blind from babyhood until his late 20s tried to tell what it was like to see: "At first the myriad of detail demanded so much attention I had to try not to look at things. There was, and still is, no ugliness in things that can be seen. Even a wad of paper, wet and soggy in a dirty gutter, contains design and color that are not unpleasant to look upon. All things are beautiful . . . and I have found life is beautiful, too . . . Thanks to my good vision, we face a future of independent security here on our Pennsylvania...
...addition to Chief Randall's full force, HAA Director Bill Bingham has three men on the "scalping and grifting" detail. Cambridge police have alerted 65 men, and Boston forces will muster about 25 officers down by Soldiers Field. This means that there will be one agent of the law for every 432 spectators expected at the stadium, and one for every 165 Yalies...
Chief Randall's office is the nerve-center for the extensive defense plans of the weekend. Randall would not detail any tactics--"Security, you know."--but his men are on a split-second schedule, the same sort of schedule that they used so well against Brown's invaders. "We've got everything covered. They'll run right into our arms...