Word: details
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the books differ in scope and style, they provide a wealth of detail about local and national politics during the periods when they were close to the centers of power. The books abound with famous names, dropped casually. From Theodore Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan to Eisenhower, Nixon, Lyndon Johnson and the Kennedy brothers. Saltonstall, now 84, told his life story, from elementary school through retirement, to Edward Weeks, a former editor of the Atlantic Monthly. The book is written in an oral, conversational style. Weeks presumably asked questions to guide Saltonstall's memory and helped organize the narrative...
...fact. Carter's proposals were far less casual than they appeared to be. Before going public with them, he had outlined them in greater detail to Soviet -Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. An unusually nervous and perspiring Dobrynin had discussed a wide range of Soviet-American issues with Carter in the Oval Office for nearly an hour...
...influencing American Indian cultures are nothing more than new variations of the discredited claims made by 19th century speculators; others point to racist implications in Fell's theories; and others say Fell's work is a classic example of pseudo-science. These serious criticisms are worth examining in some detail...
...novelist, and his style makes this obvious. His prose moves fitfully at best, is downright turgid at worst, and is obviously better suited to the front page of a New England town newspaper than the inside of a classy $10 hard-back. Always the reporter, he is long on detail and short on interpretation. An endless stream of names, places, death tolls and other gruesome details flashes past, making the book itself a hurricane of facts that often leaves the reader bewildered. There is no real weight, no meaning attached to the cyclone of detail--and when Allen attempts...
...mayoral presentation will be who will detail his "personal religion"--a self-styled scheme of world-religion" ga self-styled scheme of world-analysis, with a government-free, tolerant society, liberated from nature by an advanced technology, as its ideal. A 90-minute film of Fuller's life and work will complete the show, which costs $2 if you're a student. Festivities begin at 7:30 p.m. in B.U.'s Morse Auditorium, 602 Commonwealth Ave., in Boston. But if Bucky's whole holy holism really excites you, you can spend $25.00 to attend one of the seminars the luminary...