Word: thorough
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Such performances have turned Enrico Berlinguer into Italy's new political star (and according to one survey, also its most sexy, in the view of Italian women). Yet, like his party, the slight. shy, introspective Berlinguer is riddled with typically European paradoxes. He is a thorough Marxist theoretician who has devoted his life to the party since he was a teenager. Yet this leader of the proletariat is customarily addressed by fellow Sardinians on vacation trips home as "Don Enrico" because of the family's prestige. As a Communist and atheist, Berlinguer ought to be a rigorous enemy...
...many Americans now have? This is what television news does best. The question is whether it should try to do more: whether a medium that must first satisfy the restless eye is best suited to serving the reasoning mind. Can the camera-that-talks ever hope to be as thorough in putting across ideas and issues as the printed word, which the undistracted mind can concentrate on? Each to his own best role...
STILL, HISTORICAL PRECISION and a thorough consideration of where the evidence is coming from give Mack's work strength. In his preface, Mack says he undertook the Lawrence project with a prejudice in favor of a much more psycho-analytical explanation of his subject; but the more he discovered the more he became convinced, he writes, that Lawrence's unusual place in history was of central importance. E.M. Forster wrote about Lawrence that in an age of faith he might have become a monk, or at least a holy crusader who continued to believe in his lost cause...
...Academic Policy Committee asserts that "it is clear that the process used by the Department of City and Regional Planning for considering the quality of Dr. Hartman's teaching did not reflect the systematic and thorough process that one would hope to find in a quality institution." The process should have been more careful and the senior faculty "could and should have made themselves better informed," the panel adds...
...then concludes that "while the process of review was neither systematic nor thorough, the Department did have informed grounds pertaining to Dr. Hartman's teaching on which to base a decision...