Word: thoroughness
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Mazo does so with particular flair. Without being too gossipy, his brash, kaleidoscopic view of the NYCB's Spring 1973 season is as thorough as a documentary. Mazo captured what would never have been spoken before a camera. His style is chatty: George Balanchine, founder and ballet master of the Company and probably the world's finest choreographer, is "Mr.B.", after the fashion of the dancers; choreographer Jerome Robbins ("the resident monster") is "Jerry...
...lapses of taste are rare. More often, Mazo brings fragments of the life sharply into focus with his knack for daring imagery ("feet flash out and back like darting fish"), and what could have been either an uncritical catalogue or a collection of gossip succeeds instead in being both thorough and sparkling...
Lewis's opinions are grounded on a thorough knowledge of firearms. He has been trained in combat shooting at Smith and Western Academy in Springfield, Mass., and at the National Rifle Association Police Firearms Instructors Training School at Camp Perry, Ohio, where he taught last summer. He has also been certified by Boston's Board of Education to teach firearms at the New England Security Officers Training Academy...
...heart-warming treatment by pointing out that "if you take anybody's life and put it on stage, you have to make him charming; you're asking people to sit with him for two hours." And Paul Robeson never bores. But Dean adds that he deliberately avoided a more thorough examination of Robeson's anger and political formation because "racism before the '60s was a comparatively simple enemy; now people want to understand the complexities of race relations in modern society." Unfortunately, Paul Robeson never really gets around to shedding light on that problem. It doesn't seem likely that...
...School's quota system for non-whites should be open to all individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, regardless of their ethnic background. Flexible guidelines should replace the use of any strict quotas. While such changes would make the admissions process more difficult--requiring additional recruiting as well as a more thorough identification of individuals--it is more equitable and socially just. And, because minority groups have suffered from a disproportionate amount of discrimination, they will still be the prime beneficiaries of such actions...