Word: details
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sporadic and capricious. The desirability and need for some sort of a plan is evident. Adams House, for example, has had since 1941 a written constitution in which the method of elections is set down pretty clearly. It states both the time and procedure of elections and in some detail the duties of the committee. Noteworthy is the fact that even under the class system on which it was based, this constitution stipulates that the whole committee must stand re-election...
...most comprehensive-but by no means the best written or most imaginative-Dickens biography, Dame Una Pope-Hennessy, is the first biographer to make use of the mass of Nonesuch and other new material. Readers will find no trace of literary judgment, but they will find every last detail of Dickens' stormy life, from crib to coffin...
...appointment of the Counsellor for Veterans, to consult in detail with service men interested in entering the University and the guide them after admission...
...production overflowing with exciting experiments, the most daring is its abandonment of realism as the medium of expression. Painted backdrops, liberal use of miniatures, and Disneyesque castles mark an important and significant departure from Hollywood's fantastic absorption with accuracy and detail. Applying to his sets the Aristotelian dictum that the function of the artist is to present the essence, rather than the particularity, of life-- which Shakespeare so wonderfully exemplifies in his use of dramatic poetry as a vehicle of expression-- Olivier reaches a level of perception into life that has seldom been equalled in motion pictures...
Admittedly, the new proposal would be difficult to work out in satisfactory detail. But by providing a practical quid pro quo, the plan dodged one sort of difficulty. By placing a minimum reliance on international inspection, the plan greatly reduced another objection. And by providing that, in case the whole scheme failed, no nation would suddenly find itself in greater peril than it would otherwise, the plan avoided the greatest objection...