Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skill of such later Wild West witnesses as Remington and Russell. The human figure bothered him; he tended to make it too squat. He used colors more like a mapmaker than like an artist. But Catlin had the crack journalist's eye both for significant sweep and significant detail. And without being dazzled by the romance of his magnificent adventure, he felt and expressed it keenly...
Adams' voice was low, often inaudible to committee members, but his words were precise and devastating in their detail as he told of repeated attempts by Joe McCarthy & Co. to get preferential Army treatment for Private G. David (Golden Boy) Schine...
...Sketch printed the review and without consulting Hopkinson added several sentences to the effect that the film was "sure and faithful in its ... technical and atmospherical detail." Author of the changes was Editor Gunn, whose wife Olive Gunn had been the technical adviser for the film. When he saw the review in print, Hopkinson promptly protested to the Sketch, received a letter of apology from Gunn in which he said that he had intended to run the review without Hopkinson's byline, but it was mistakenly left on. Hopkinson took his complaint to Britain's year...
...diversity of subjects that we handle every day-everything from automotive stories to flying saucer-men's lectures and the occasional mur der. Best of all, perhaps, I like being on the inside of the stories that make the week's news. There is very little boring detail in editorial work, and you feel that everything you do is important...
...conviction : that any rich aristocrat who wanted to become an officer should be able to buy a colonelcy in a crack regiment. The three aristocrats who may be called the villains of the Charge of the Light Brigade, and whose life stories Au thor Woodham-Smith traces in fascinating detail...