Word: details
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense in the country that he is addressing fundamental historical questions," thus giving his Administration cohesion; that there is 50% more internal communication in Reagan's White House than there was in Jimmy Carter's; that "we should not be lulled by Reagan's inattentiveness to detail and nuances... As President, Reagan has imposed exceptional discipline on his Administration...
What makes Viet Nam: A Television History effective is less its grand scale than its telling detail. The opening hour, which concentrates on France's century of colonial control, offers chilling hints of why the Vietnamese nationalists were so implacable: in the first years of the 20th century, postcards of severed Vietnamese heads were mailed by French soldiers to their sweethearts; some 2 million Vietnamese died of starvation during and after World War II. The narrative recalls that North Vietnamese Leader Ho Chi Minh collaborated at the end of that war with U.S. intelligence agents and modeled Viet...
Other staff changes include the creation of several "central" managerial positions and the dismissal or impending dismissal of numerous lower-level maintenance workers such as carpenters, roofers and painters. Saltonstall refused to detail the job terminations...
...professor even the pressure of endless detail, seems to have been absent "My summer was not interesting enough to describe in print," says Philosophy professor Robert Nozick...
...political fervor or such a character. So little space is devoted to each historical episode that nothing "extraneous" to the main point seeps in. Any triviality which might make a character human might obscure the character's clearly designated role, might compromise the book's neat conclusion--any such detail is glossed over by the book's flying pace...