Word: details
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sports section is almost all new and thick with detail...
...Baldrige Vanderbilt makes a handsome flipping book, although it cannot rival in sheer opulence of detail and gesture the original Emily Post (1922), with its tensely fascinating vignettes, involving Mrs. Cravin Praise, Mr. Stocksan Bonds, Mrs. Climber, Mrs. Oldworld, Mrs. Wellborn, the Upstarts and the Richan Vulgars (see box). Tish is always straightforward, forbearing and rather elegant in her directness. She enjoys making sense...
Probably the most criticized agency is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. OSHA mandates in lavish detail characteristics that machinery must have rather than simply setting standards for safety on the job and letting companies devise their own ways for meeting them. On construction sites, the agency simultaneously demands that trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles have loud back-up horns and that workers wear hearing protectors to cut down noise levels. Although the agency has widely trumpeted its recent attempts to eliminate some of its sillier rules, many still remain...
...Life's dailiness seems somehow inappropriate to such a man as it is to most legendary artists. But his last 14 years are about to receive intense scrutiny by scholars, Wagner lovers and Wagner loathers-who seem to exist in equal numbers -for they were recorded in torrential detail by his second wife Cosima in her diary...
Electric Delights comprises a delightful miscellany of Plomeriana: brief essays on his favorite poets and novelists; portraits of Brighton, Wales and Ireland reprinted from his garrulous autobiography; a selection of poems and short stories. Plomer had a genius for the characteristic detail, the telling anecdote. George Gissing, a 19th century novelist scarred by neglect, wrote in the hesitant manner of one who, "anxious to avoid appearing gauche or conspicuous, may sometimes be caught glancing furtively round to make sure that he is about to use the right knife and fork." Edward FitzGerald, the reclusive translator...