Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Star's causes. Last month, alarmed about a rising traffic death rate, the Star ran a lead editorial deploring the carnage, then sent Editorial Writer James W. Scott out for earnest conferences with Police Chief Bernard Brannon and other authorities. Result: a new 36-man traffic detail and a series of frontpage editorials backing up the police department's campaign...
Italian from Galway. What Anne Bancroft nightly brings to Annie Sullivan, besides sheer physical stamina, is an extraordinary talent for observation, an ear and an eye for the small, significant detail that transforms mimicry into understanding. So the coarse, curbside intonations of The Bronx were erased with intuitive skill at the flare of a footlight and the rise of a curtain. Seesaw's Gittel spoke with an inflection that convinced thousands of theatergoers that the actress must be Jewish ("I didn't even know what a Jew was until I was grown up," says Anne Bancroft). As Annie...
Years of research among troops and officers, both Allied and German, add up to a battle picture that is gripping in detail yet firmly held in the frame of strategy...
...laissez-faire policy by the Faculty would just as surely control the shape of Harvard drama as would one of complete direction, down to the smallest detail. It would ensure the continuance of the present, with its virtues and its evils. Clearly, the Faculty Committee on Dramatics does not intend to allow this. Commendably, it seeks to guide undergraduate dramatics so that it better serves the community and the participants...
...story and keeps it from breathing. Into a short play, Inge has further tossed comedy bits involving theater types and neighbor boys, and a farcical bed-hopping drunk scene. As a result, mother and son never get deeply probed, never really come to grips. Something essential, whether cumulative small detail or a big scene, is missing. A climactic moment, such as the mother's refusing her son's deeply felt anniversary gift, half-sacrifices character to plot. The silver cord does not really bind Inge's story...