Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Volunteers at MGH form only a segment of the non-trained, unpaid staff of 550 which is directed by a professional volunteer director at the hospital. She coordinates office secretaries, housewives, telephone operators, businessmen, and lately, college students, into an effective clerical and ward detail which takes an immense load off the hospital's budget, not to mention off its staff...
...reported it with exactness. The names of the past receive flesh and clothing, and the words they spoke or probably spoke are worked into vernacular and decorated with quotation marks. Aside from this, the author does little more than fill out the recorded incidents with stage direction and plausible detail, and fill in between them with little scenes of his own devising--none of which display any abnormal fertility of imaganation. His language is so lucid that it never obscures any part of the chronicle, but so restrained that he seems to be denying himself a last avenue of self...
...beauty of the estate and the mansion, but his burial problems and bitterness against Lee suddenly overwhelmed him. Turning to Lincoln, he said: "Lee shall never return to Arlington." A few minutes later, as the two men strolled around the grounds of the estate, they came upon a detail of soldiers carrying the bodies of several of their comrades. Meigs halted the soldiers and asked them where they were going. They were going to the burial ground at Soldiers' Home in Washington. Meigs then turned to an Army captain and said, "Order out a burial squad and see that...
Faithful in detail, the picture is false to the original in its feeling. The Broadway production was as intimate as a hotfoot; the Goldwyn movie takes a blowtorch full of Eastman Color and stereophonic sound to get the same reaction. More specifically, a couple of the principals do not quite deliver. Brando as the gambler has a nylon slickness and the right occupational crimp around the eyes. He dances, too, in one wonderful piece of mambo-jumbo, with a kind of animal rapture that moviegoers will want to see more of but he sings in a faraway tenor that sometimes...
...helplessness when confronted with love," said Freud. "He understands either coarse animal desire or masochistic submission, or else love out of pity." In his readable, reasonable, slice-of-love-life study of the great Russian novelist, Author Slonim, Russian-born teacher and critic, documents this Freudian analysis in detail. Avoiding sweeping generalizations, Slonim suggests that some of the grit in the oyster of Dostoevsky's genius was put there by women...