Word: details
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reporters report in one dimension, achieving at best the dramatic surface of a mural or a movie. Rebecca West reports in depth-a depth whose winding recesses of character, situation and context she divines by the play of unusually acute instincts and intuitions guided by an eye for significant detail. And she floods the planes of her perception with the generous human warmth of a womanly nature and a culture-crowded brain that gives to the meanest fact a new perspective...
...column story on the life & works of David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter-soldier-politician, in the Nov. 10 issue is, to a large extent, the result of a year's acquaintanceship between Artist Siqueiros and John Stanton, chief of TIME Inc.'s Mexico City bureau. Because the detail and sound analysis of Stanton's research also showed a warm understanding of Mexican ways, I asked him to tell me about the business of being a correspondent in Mexico as it applied to the Siqueiros story. This is his reply...
...explained in detail how the "get tough with Russia" foreign policy would lead to clearly-defined and amicable Soviet-American relations, while a nebulous policy of compromise, such as he said the Wallace element advocates, would invite unlimited Soviet aggrandizement and make war inevitable...
...past is now his future; he knows it but he cannot avoid it. He gets into the same scrapes, has the same adventures with women. By the time he again meets Zinaida he has forgotten that he ever met her. The story repeats itself down to the last detail-until, once again, he finds himself visiting the magician. But when he reaches the point of asking the magician to send him back, he suddenly remembers everything...
...benefit of other interested observers, London's papers printed every detail of the wedding plans as they were announced. Even in New York the British Information Service was kept busy answering questions. "Yes," they told one questioner, "the wedding will be paid for in the usual fashion. The bridegroom will take care of the church expenses. The reception will be paid for by the King...