Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until the group can determine its exact relationship with the individual student governments, it will probably have to remain content with its status as an advisory body...
...this is the epitome of civilized landscape. Like the best work of Jacob van Ruisdael, the 17th century Dutchman whom Constable considered a master of "natural" vision, Wivenhoe Park manages to be both real and ideal; it is a powerful (though subdued) instrument of fantasy as well as an exact rendition of General Rebow's family seat...
...social status, his first job, his first girl, and the variables inherent in all of these, make up that mysterious compendium, personality--which then combines with another set of variables: country, climate, time, and historical circumstance. Is it likely, then, that all these elements will meet again in their exact proportions to reproduce a Moses, or Hitler, or de Gaulle, or for that matter Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who killed Kennedy?" "Is History a Guide to the Future?" Address, Chicago, Historical Society, October...
...find out what happened in history is enough at the outset without trying too soon to make sure of the "why," I believe it is safer to leave the "why" alone until after one has not only gathered the facts but arranged them in sequence; to be exact, in sentences, paragraphs, and chapters. The very process of transforming a collection of personalities, dates, gun calibers, letters, and speeches into a narrative eventually forces the "why" to the surface. It will emerge of itself one fine day from the story of what happened. It will suddenly appear...
...universal--to war to cruelty, to the inevitability of death it self. Similarly, a supremely wonderful or insightful moment may spark a feeling of simpatico towards humankind in general, a sense that maybe, at that moment a fellow on the other side of the earth is thinking the exact same thought. D. M. Thomas understands these moments, and it is his particular gift to be able, in his writing, to reveal and explore this pulse that binds one being to another...