Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roosevelt promoted him to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in 1939. Prior to World War II Judge Patterson fought the unpopular fight for a military-conscription law, and personally enrolled in an officers' refresher course at Plattsburg, N.Y. There he was emptying garbage cans on a K.P. detail in the summer of 1940 when he heard that Roosevelt wanted him in Washington...
Dickens is essentially a confidential writer. Even when he is dealing with the broad masses of unrest in France in "A Tale of Two Cities," he is drawn inexorably to the minute details of the situation, which he eagerly and secretively displays to his reader. He should ideally be read-or rendered--in a heavy Victorian atmosphere itself rich in distracting detail. Mr. Williams attempted to recreate this mood by dressing himself as Dickens, beard and all, by reading from frayed volumes on a velvet-topped desk copied from that which the author used in his own "Readings...
...divided among the state, counties, cities and townships. Stevenson called the leaders to the executive mansion and by 2 a.m. had worked out a compromise. On this issue, as on every other, he had studied exhaustively and, as Jack Arvey put it, had become "an expert on every damned detail...
...against the dead-looking buildings." Since Colleen Browning is an artist, she set about painting what she saw, and last week she put 13 pictures on display in a Manhattan gallery. Harlem has been painted more expertly, but seldom with more sympathy or with a quicker eye for vivid detail...
...captain himself has supervised every detail of the new course-from buying the equipment to remodeling rooms for the studios in the foundation's building. But this activity has not absorbed all his energies. He still skippers his ship on oceanic expeditions, still pilots his DC-3 from Los Angeles to Santa Maria, still plays Haydn and Mozart with his Hancock Trio, is still a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, still occasionally drives Engine 21 on the Santa Maria Valley Railroad. He has no notion whatever of retiring: "Some of my friends do, and invariably are dead...