Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...begin to answer this question, it may be useful to examine in more detail the wide scope of disagreement which exists not only between the majority in each party which reflects the consensus and the minority in each party that opposes it but within the ranks of those who make up these divisions. These differences are further intensified and distorted by election year conflicts, which often call forth the fierce expression of party loyalty and prejudice...
...Republican Administration agrees with the principles of the New Deal, Chester Bowles said last night, and as a result the only serious disagreement in American politics is on questions of detail...
...group's leader, the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, president of the National Council and stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., went into more revealing detail last week in a series of three articles for the Associated Press. Writing for himself only, Dr. Blake showed he had a good journalist's eye, though it was, he confessed, "almost permanently closed against klieg lights and flashbulbs...
Happy-Go-Unlucky. For more than half the evening Mister Johnson rather recalls The Teahouse of the August Moon, perhaps because Robert Lewis ably directed both plays. There is a like comedy of nationalities, a comparable use of picturesque detail; in one play a needed road is stalled in red tape, in the other it is a needed schoolhouse; in one, an engaging young native sage holds forth, in the other it is an engaging young native duffer. But the difference between the two plays' titles helps explain their enormous eventual difference in tone. Mister Johnson is really, from...
Homage from Five Flies. Reed has a short memory for distracting detail-he even forgets which year he became president of American Express-but he has a phenomenal capacity for cramming facts and figures into his head on any problem he is studying. Last June, on an exploratory trip to Hawaii, he gathered enough information in three days to decide to open a Waikiki office. "In those three days," recalls a Honolulu businessman, "Reed knew more about Hawaii than 90% of the people who live here...