Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just a detail-a finishing touch to the grim and familiar picture which might be titled "Freedom of Religion in a People's Democracy." The Polish Roman Catholic hierarchy, it was announced last week, had taken an oath of loyalty to Poland's Communist government. Church Leaders Cardinal Wyszynski and Bishop Kaczmarek still stayed under lock & key, and the Poles of the Silent Church set their lips a little tighter and waited...
...American Cancer Society through its volunteers is undertaking the most extensive survey ever envisaged in this field. The complete smoking histories of more than 200,000 males throughout the U.S. between the ages of 50 and 69 will be recorded in detail . . . The health histories of each of them will be followed for at least five years. At the end of that time, or possibly before, we should be able to correlate the relationship between their smoking histories and the extent of lung cancer among the smokers and non-smokers...
...kind seemed more comfortable. He also gathered together a group of representative students from the Student Council to find out whether they would prefer to have in the dining halls small tables, long tables, round tables, rectangular ones, or a mixture of the various types and sizes! Matters of detail as well as the general educational and social aims of the Houses received his close attention as the new Houses like Dunster, Eliot and Lowell were being planned and some of the older buildings re-arranged to adapt them to what at the time was called the "House plan...
...detail from the lithograph reproduced on the opposite page shows some of the natural sources of electric power and a few of the men whose philosophical and scientific knowledge helped open up the mysteries of electrical energy to man. The other panel (overleaf) is a fanciful melange of the places (Rome, Paris, London, New York) and purposes (broadcasting music, guiding an airplane) which electricity serves. As Poet Wallace Stevens wrote in an essay accompanying the Dufy lithograph: "It is an exploitation of fact by a man of elevation. It is a surface of prose changeable with the luster of poetry...
Done with the usual Disney care for detail and sense of comic pace, and with more than the usual share of good visual surprises, the cartoon reaches a most un-Disney-like climax in a fine burst of political irreverence...