Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George W. Cottrell, Jr., Editor in the University Library, pointed out that "these relatively crude drawings show the gropings toward profuse detail that are realized in 'Birds of America'." Appended to these originals are comments in the artist's poor English and worse French...
Friday's wage-price stabilization order did not go into detail. Lacking a fully staffed office in operation as yet, the N.P.A. has been unable to amplify the order in response to queries about the status of specific prices. The office will begin supplying such information later this week...
Best of its stories is "The Rain-Crows," by Billy Joyner. Joyner writes with smooth skill and acute perception of the black earth of the South, and the people and their passions which grow in it. His description is simple yet detailed--Joyner writes with care of the smoke rising from the burning brush of a pasture, of a dead crow hanging stiff from the wire of a fence--at the same time, his words move with an easy rhythm that carries along the detail in a nice balance of sound...
Lewis handled the English language almost as clumsily as Theodore Dreiser, and with less force; he marshaled as many fascinating minor characters as Sherwood Anderson, but his understanding of them did not approach Anderson's awkward but subtle sympathy. Lewis was a good reporter, with an eye for detail. His mimicry of American speech was sometimes an inspired burlesque; his humor was usually broad enough for a Rotary luncheon...
...long way from human problems, but Dr. Williams' work was largely supported by cancer research funds, because a cure for cancer may depend upon a better understanding of growth. Cancer cells grow lawlessly, defying the hormone controls that limit the growth of ordinary cells. By working out in detail the hormone system that governs the silkworm's metamorphosis. Dr. Williams has helped explain both lawful and lawless growth within the human body...