Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wolfson has risen to scholarly preeminence because his work, unlike his maelstrom-like study, is pervaded by an almost classic sense of detail and style. His prose is limpid. His manuscripts often have to wait years of careful research before he submits them to print. His research methods, although seemingly careless, have the same painstaking quality. After be graduated from Harvard in 1911, Wolfson went on a Sheldon Fellowship to Europe theoretically for pleasurable travel. He traveled alright, but from one library to another, Paris, Parma, Rome, and Cambridge, for a year and a half, reading copiously and taking detailed...
...agree on a broad agenda. Then, with their foreign ministers at hand, the Big Four heads of government-Dwight Eisenhower, Anthony Eden, Edgar Faure and Nikolai Bulganin-would meet to discuss issues and methods of arriving at solutions. Later the foreign ministers and their aides would deal in detail with the points outlined during the top-level meeting. On the first question to be decided, the place of meeting, the ministers promptly encountered a difference. Dulles proposed Switzerland; Molotov suggested Vienna. A decision was deferred...
Propaganda Points. The same day, in London, Jacob Malik, Soviet delegate to the U.N. Disarmament Commission Subcommittee meeting there, spelled out in long-prepared detail how the Soviet Union would end the cold war. He did so without furnishing his fellow negotiators with translations, but Radio Moscow promptly broadcast the message in English, indicating that the Kremlin had intended the idea primarily for propaganda, not negotiation...
...progressive generation of Conservatives, have dismantled only a part of the Welfare State (public ownership of the steel and road transport). They have committed themselves to many of the economic and social concepts it was built upon. In foreign policy the two parties differ in tone, and sometimes in detail, but stand mutually for negotiation-through-strength in Europe and go-slow in Asia...
Story of Midas, Baucis and Philemon, The Invasion of Troy and dozens of others. The "something extra" that Ovid brings to each saga is the saving detail of homely human interest, and Translator Humphries helps bring it out with homely colloquial touches of his own. As Daedalus fashions feathers into wings for the fateful flight from Crete, his playful son Icarus...