Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feebleminded is Robert Fisher's stale catalogue of bullfight lore. Fisher's use of a banal subject--the discovery of dedication, and death, in a bullfight--would be bad enough if the story were well-handled. But the author seems to have almost no control. Every possible detail and almost all the conceivable eventualities of a bullfight are crammed into the story, completely obscuring the character of the novillero who achieves his consummation in death. Besides this retailing of tauromachian local-color, Fisher afflicts his readers with a stiff, unrealistic dialogue (including some unconvincing, garrulous pre-fight speeches...
Then the President reviewed in intricate detail the medical reports showing that he has made a good recovery, and the physicians' estimate that he is able to continue in the presidency. He pointed out that he might possibly be "a greater risk than is a normal person of my age," but "so far as my own personal sense of well-being is concerned, I am as well as before the attack occurred . . . As of this moment, there is not the slightest doubt that I can now perform as well as I ever have all of the important duties...
Perhaps the most common reason for giving to the Fund was expressed in a talk by Edward Streeter '14, author of Father of the Bride. "Although the graduate's memories will differ in detail, they will be basically similar to mine, and he will sigh with regret that an era so good, so rich, so colorful, so filled with giants and genius and laughter, should have passed away forever--and then he will fumble in the lower drawer of his desk for his checkbook...
...these is the growing apprehension about the course of U.S. foreign policy. The apprehension was heightened by last week's furor over the 18 tanks for Saudi Arabia (TIME, Feb. 27) principally because this inept episode in diplomacy was read as being symptomatic of high-level inattention to detail. Some of the worry was stirred by eager, trend-pursuing newsmen (see JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES) and politicians in pursuit of campaign issues. Some of it was well-founded...
...only notable news reports in circulation. Two important Bogota dailies, both suppressed by Rojas Pinilla, popped up again last week under pen names. Internationally respected El Tiempo reappeared as El Intermedia (Interlude), and El Espectador as El Inde-pendiente. In makeup, typography and content, down to the smallest detail, both papers were identical with their forerunners. Such transparent disguise presumably meant that Strongman Rojas, smarting under criticism, was willing to let them start up again with only a legalistic switch in names to get him off the hook. But censorship went right...