Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...view of nine-year-old Michael and of his aunt Mandy, who acts as a matriarch and alone recalls the aristocratic values of the past. Although the piece is avowedly part of a longer work, the scene through Michael's ingenuous eyes has a unity of mood and detail...
...writer shows great maturity of style in such technical matters as transition and selection of detail. However, he has taken such pains to avoid breaking the mood that there is no change of pace whatever. Chace might have given the story more motion by a dynamic use of dialogue, instead of burying the spoken conversation in description and stream of consciousness. The phrasing is near-perfect. There is hardly a bad sentence in the piece, except, perhaps, the first one ("In the spring of that year time hung over the city in a grey fog"), which is pretentious enough...
...interesting-why didn't you use the whole thing?" Ecker likened the TIME story to an iceberg, with the small portion seen on the surface supported by the great bulk underneath. With a whole world to cover each week, TIME would quickly overburden its readers by reporting every detail of every story...
...Roman furniture, pored over history books for suitably lively subjects. Then, with the help of models and statues, he began to paint such subjects as Samson & Delilah, the bacchanalian roisters of ancient Rome, and even early American Indian maidens-all with the same careful respect for accuracy and detail he had used in his news assignments...
...sharply observant eye once again brought history to life. It was finicky about detail, looking over the shoulder of Czechoslovakia's Gertruda Sekaninova as she jotted down notes; absorbedly watching Japan's Premier Shigeru Yoshida nimbly unroll the manuscript of his speech with one hand and roll it up with the other; turning away from a repetitious speaker to look at the stony-faced Russians, at an Anglo-American huddle...