Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forgot one small detail-that the Joshua Liebman opus, Peace of Mind, was the grandpappy of them all. Any corny tendencies of the books you named were to be found in embryo on that old cob. Also, why not direct your diatribes at the voracious public appetite for junk...
...lack of material in the case of Prof. Baker, and from Mrs. Bernstein's failure to release his letters to her--she plans to edit them herself; one suspects with less than complete frankness. But Wolfe's dealings with Maxwell Perkins are explored in almost painful and certainly verbose detail...
...book is painful and embarrassing on many counts. It asks the reader to share what Lael Tucker Wertenbaker calls her "abstract joy in the quality of his death," after which her "winter-white skin turned quite black and stayed dark for two days." It reports every intimate clinical detail of the pain, distress and hopelessness that afflict the victim of terminal cancer. As such, it tends to force into silence critics who may feel that they have been invited to share a private rite that Lael Tucker created about her dying husband-but who have doubts about its public validity...
Issued in regimental lots from the Pentagon last week were reports about impending changes in the top command of the U.S. armed forces. The rumors varied in detail, but nearly all agreed that 1) Air Force Chief of Staff Nathan F. Twining, 59, will become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when Admiral Arthur Radford's term expires in August, and 2), Twining's replacement will be Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Thomas White, 55, a skilled Pentagon hand since 1948. Missing from all the gossip lists was the name of Strategic Air Commander Curtis LeMay...
Gamy Gamut. Unlike soap opera, the average confession story runs a gamy gamut of misadventure and misfortune whose-Boccaccian detail is tempered only by the bowdlerized prose of Hollywood. A bastard is a "sin child" or "living proof," adultery is "cheating." But in the end, every Wedding-Ring Dodger and Faithless Mate, however devious, rises above the blighted past ("Is he remembering her when he kisses me?") and, overcoming the doom-fraught future ("A lifetime of not knowing"), concludes his or her chronicle on a hopeful note. "Sure, we're Pollyanna," shrugs Nina Dorrance, young (35) editor of superslick...