Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boys and girls with no other purpose in life than sheer enjoyment found described a way of life exactly to their taste. The cynical, lusty tale of the love life of two brothers and their single girl friend was promptly transcribed into a movie whose uninhibited fidelity to detail would have whitened a Hollywood censor's hair overnight. More books and more movies followed, each proclaiming in brutish simplicity the joys of pointless violence and casual lust. The first novel lent its name to the cult of its worshipers, and the worshipers returned the compliment by doing their best...
...outside world. But Western newsmen were soon shuttling across the Austro-Hungarian border. Their first piecemeal reports came back in fragments as staccato as burp-gun bursts, and first photographs could give only scattered glimpses of the struggle. This week the editors of LIFE present a report in detail and depth of the critical period of the revolution in a book called Hungary's Fight for Freedom, compiled from on-the-spot reports by TIME and LIFE correspondents and other news sources, and from a worldwide collection of photographs...
...stops a recognized pint pitcher without cause and finds whisky, the case can be tossed out of court for lack of a search warrant. But if he goes after a warrant, the pint pitcher disappears. As fast as he raids and closes one package store, another opens. Police liquor details are inadequate; Tulsa attempts to stem a 30,000-case-per-month consumption with a three-man detail. As it was during national Prohibition, Oklahoma public opinion is more with the bootlegger than with the police...
...Prosser's Nine to Five, Lawrence Schoonover's The Quick Brown Fox, are all business novels by authors who at one time or another have been in business themselves. Thus in Executive Suite, Author Cameron Hawley, a longtime executive of Armstrong Cork Co., can expertly detail for his readers the struggle to find a new president in a big corporation. Later, in Cash McCall, he attempts to explain the philosophy that drives men to seek wealth and power. Argues Hero McCall: "We maintain that the very foundation of our way of life is what we call free enterprise...
...stories are by Jean Stafford, the biggest name and most accomplished craftsman of the group. Mostly, she is writing communiqués in the unceasing wars between children and adults and between the innocent and the worldly. Her work is marred by a truly feminine absorption in detail so that sometimes she seems to be writing for visitors from Mars, as in Bad Characters with its loving description of a 5 & 10? store, and in Beatrice Trueblood's Story with its total recall of a short ride in a self-service elevator ("an asphyxiating chamber with a fan that...