Word: detail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guerard's book is not quite so sweeping as the title would indicate, which is just as well. There is very little biographical detail, and he is willing to deal with his favorite novels at great length, while others are dismissed with a few pages, or none. Partisans of Victory and Chance may complain that they are worth more than a half-dozen pages apiece, but Guerard's rejection of them is persuasive...
...sanitarium that will tell them that one of his recurrent suicide attempts has succeeded. "That in Aleppo Once . . ." tells of a Russian emigré torn from the girl he married "a few weeks before the gentle Germans roared into Paris.'' One story. First Love-"true in every detail to the author's remembered life"-links Nabokov to an episode in the life of the notorious Humbert Humbert, Lolita's nymphet-chasing hero. In the story, the narrator is smitten by a cute little nymphetease on the beach at Biarritz-but it is only a poignant little...
...took my wife to the theater one night, and I overheard somebody saying, 'That's the guy who was beat by Charles Van Doren.' It hurt me egotistically.") The very mention of Producer Enright seemed to choke Herb with bile. But for all his vindictiveness, his detail-packed story commanded attention...
...Platt; in addition to the fine climate and mountain-valley site, the college pays excellent salaries and offers new faculty members the chance to spend part of their first year doing nothing but planning courses. Large areas of the new college's curriculum are still not mapped in detail, and professors meet to dovetail their separate requirements at beer-and-sandwich klatches...
...rich in. family detail and warmth was the painting that it became a royal favorite for two generations; it now hangs in Madrid's Prado. Scholars have long since identified the room Velàsquez pictured as one in Madrid's Alcazar. They recognized the painting hanging below the ceiling in the left background as the Pallas and Arachne originally ordered by Philip IV from Rubens in 1636 for the Torre de la Parada, the royal hunting lodge near Madrid...