Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Middle of the Night, for example, is full of baby-sitter, telephone, shoes-off-in-the-living-room, talk-frankly-about sex realism. Nearly every little detail is honest and well observed, but some seem at the same time to be examples of unselective realism, of cliches and trivia...
Medical History. Much of the third and final volume of Analyst Jones's painstakingly researched, lovingly written biography* is taken up with an extraordinary account of Freud's illness and its effects on his last years. The effects, never before described in such detail, were painful, profound and sometimes bizarre...
...office building. From the staircase a voice called "Martínez Garcia." Martnez turned and caught a bullet full in the face. The gunman, thought to be a professional Cuban gun slinger, grabbed Martnez' briefcase, then scuttled from the building undetected. Only in one detail did the shooting vary from the pattern: the bullet ripped through Martnez' cheek and neck, missing a vital spot, and the Trujillo critic will probably live...
...novels in the last 20 years, it will be good and sufficient news that another literary manhole cover is rolling their way. The Sound of Thunder, book No. 18 on the Caldwell production line, has the usual assets: an inchoate style, specious profundities, embryonic character portrayal, oppressively inconsequential detail-all embossed on a favorite theme, the troubled rise of a business tycoon. About the only noncounterfeit quality of Thunder is the solid clunk it will make high on the bestseller list...
...book, sixth and next to last installment in Will Durant's massive Story of Civilization, retraces that battle in half a million highly readable words. Painstaking, broadminded and fluent, The Reformation is a triumph for 71-year-old Author Durant, who combines an encyclopedist's passion for detail with a philosopher's ability to generalize and a good storyteller's sense of anecdote...