Word: details
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Divinity School administrators recently cancelled plans to host a conference that would detail ties between Israel and South Africa. Organizer Nancy U. Murray said the purpose of the conference--dubbed "Apartheid's Arc and the Palestinian Uprising: Making the Connections"--was "to give information" on an issue "kept from view...
...Teddy...began a new genre of books with his attention to detail and his intense attention to people," said Bradlee of White's books...
...Harvard's diversity, then I'd like to draw your attention to some of the other alternatives that might maximize both student choice and diversity. I would be impossible to list all of the plans that people have suggested to me over the past weeks, so I will only detail what I consider to be the best alternative: non-ordered choice...
...19th century mind, with its penchant for the scientific and the mechanical, the camera was the supreme mechanism, a trap for facts. Capable of capturing high detail, operated with a minimum of human intervention, it seemed from the first to have a special purchase on the truth. William Henry Fox Talbot, the Englishman who was one of photography's inventors, was merely summing up what would become the judgment of the day when he called his new process the "pencil of nature...
Abernathy claims that he would have avoided sexual matters "had others not dealt with the matter in such detail." Previous accounts of King's philandering, says Abernathy, have not provided an explanation of his behavior. Abernathy does not do much better, merely observing that King "had a particularly difficult time" fending off women...