Word: minutest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well that a great majority of Englishmen are fond of The Indefinite which they Measure by New ton's Doctrine of the Fluxions of an Atom, A Thing that does not Exist ... a Line or Lineament is not formed by Chance; a Line is a Line in its Minutest Subdivisions . . . God keep me from the Divinity of Yes & No too, The Yea Nay Creeping Jesus, from supposing Up & Down to be the same Thing as all Experimentalists must suppose." This is a long way from the world of relativity and particle physics...
...child of sturdy Minnesotans who both lived into their nineties, Burger, 68, is remarkably healthy despite his pace. His secretary reports that he averages 77 hours a week on the job, nearly a fourth of that in nonjudicial duties. He oversees the minutest details of high bench housekeeping, right down to final approval of every flower planted on court grounds. Academic observers continue to fault the quality of Burger's opinions, and though he carries his share of the writing, he once admitted to a Court aide, "I have to take some of the easier ones because...
...create a 'living' man from a dying genius." That enhanced his public image, encouraged his publishers, consoled the Stravinsky household (which did not seem willing to accept the reality) and, apparently, was convincing on his tax returns. (Stravinsky, for example, kept a daily notebook of the minutest home and business expenses, with a view, says Libman, toward justifying deductions to the Internal Revenue Service...
...conceived by the Council of Trent-the 16th century ecclesiastical assembly that shored up Catholic walls against the Protestant Reformation. He described "the church in which we grew up" as almost completely withdrawn from the world. "It was a church in which discipline and order and conformity to the minutest rubric were paramount values, a church increasingly irrelevant and unintelligible to men." In Detroit, he said, he lost all hope for change: "Discussion is impossible...
...minutest details of each situation play an essential part. That the film's second section takes place at home has the deepest possible bearing on the emotional climate of the relationships then developing. The world of the film contracts and its relationships become less existential, more archetypal, as they turn to the family: man, wife, and son. Here again scenes are played less outrageously than in earlier Chabrol, so that the child who sees through the superficial amicability of his parents' relationship reacts to his intuitive insights only indirectly. His inability to finish a picture puzzle, a metaphor...