Word: heightening
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...Tuchman is not satisfied with this duty; repeatedly she describes her efforts to get a feeling out of the events she narrates. To heighten the reader's suspense, she writes of the time, without using the benefit of hindsight. ("I went back and cut all references but one of the Battle of the Marne, in the chapters leading up to the battle. Though it may seem absurd, I even cut out all references to the ultimate defeat of Germany. I wrote as if I did not know who would win.") An advocate of "corraborative detail," she uncovers and utilizes insignificant...
...normal conversation. A love letter may not be quite as satisfying as a love affair, but it requires a higher form of invention. The grandiloquent similes of which love letters are made-similes reduced to grunts and sighs when people are face to face-serve not only to heighten passion, but to make a frieze of it, to turn the lover into a craftsman. This may not be true of Mrs. Thomas Carlyle, who addressed a letter to her husband, "Goody, Goody, dear Goody" and signed it "Goody" as well; or of Zelda Fitzgerald, who once focused on the sartorial...
Several blatantly racist attacks against minorities at Harvard, most of which were committed by as-yet-unidentified assailants, disrupted the University last fall and threatened to heighten racial tension. The president of the Black Students Association (BSA) received rape and death threats. Someone broke into the BSA office and scrawled racist epithets on the organizations's calendar. At Williams College, a cross was burned...
...from Moscow in January after a year as ambassador to the Soviet Union, he wrote, "The leaders of the Soviet Union have both the will and the means to match any arms build-up we make. All we will accomplish is to throw good money after bad and to heighten the dangers of an accidental nuclear exchange. Like it or not, we have to acknowledge that the Soviet Union will not accept second-class status...
...women currently in the program agree. A string of rapes in the Cambridgeport area last summer didn't bring adequate police response, but did, according to one participant in the safe house network who asked not to be identified, "heighten the visibility of the entire problem--and of solutions like this...