Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...copies are always released eventually for distribution. Says Campbell: "TIME evokes widespread interest because its articles are quoted so much. It may be under some such heading as 'Hostile, Lying Foreign Press' or 'More Poison in TIME,' but the articles are quoted in great detail...
...tear-gas barrage had driven prisoners back from the wire, unarmed British troops in jaunty green berets went in, under the protection of U.S. guards with bayonets at the ready, and smashed the huts with axes, hatchets, sledges, crowbars. Nobody got hurt, but next day a prisoner work detail from Compound 96, carrying sewage buckets on poles, stopped at the corner of Compound 85 as if to exchange messages through the wire. When U.S. guards tried to get the detail moving again, a prisoner charged one of the Americans with his three-inch-thick pole. The guard shot him dead...
...Helen (now Mrs. Helen Taft Manning, a professor of history at Bryn Mawr College) remembers that Bob's attitude was quite different. Said she: "Bob was the most fascinated of all of us . . . To this day, Bob can relate step by step and almost word for word every detail of the ceremony. Perhaps, unconsciously, it was there that he acquired his first ambition to become President...
...hurried on with his rough draft, Stendhal omitted many a detail, skipped from point to point with the eagerness of a writer who knows that most of the machinery of his story, to say nothing of the polish, can be worked in later. He introduced many minor characters by name only, breathing a mere suggestion of life into them. Lamiel was beginning to look more & more like the plan of one of Balzac's great social histories when Stendhal suddenly took sick and died...
Hand to the plow, which won the first prize, boasts a very clear, almost slick style. This macabre story of a subtle murder, emblemished with crisp dialogue and painstaking detail, seems like a strange marriage of Edgar Allen Poe and Hamlin Garlin. Miss Leonard has constructed her slice of horror carefully and correctly, slipping the stilleto in exactly the right place at the right time. Although this is a cool, professional job, it does not have the strength of personal involvement that the Stewart story...