Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Zapp's trials in attempting to sell a somewhat flinty U. S. press on the merits of doctored, Nazified German news were bared in the lavish detail of Zapp's own correspondence, also urgent Berlin cables demanding information on Franklin Roosevelt's political chances...
...Nelson Gidding displays a facility of technique and a mastery of dramatic detail that make his story excellent reading. The emphasis on character psychology, combined with these technical qualities, results in a stimulating narrative which increases steadily in intensity to the end. Gidding saves the final knockout punch for the last few lines, although if the reader has the perception, the conclusion will come as no surprise. The story is probably the best the author has produced...
Another short story of the psychological variety, but one in which the main character is of even more an introverted and frustrated type, is Billy Abrahams' "Wind In Dry Grass." Pure character psychology, without recourse to actual external detail, is a tough assignment, but Abrahams handles the job well. The kaleidoscopic emotions of the dying intellectual, frustrated by the realization of his physical inferiority, are portrayed poignantly and effectively...
...Among magazines, TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE are"too vital"to be"analyzed." Nevertheless Howe gives a short chapter to them, larded with numerous gossip-begotten errors of detail but closer to the truth than most accounts. Astonishing remark: that because Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Luce were in the Low Countries in the spring of 1940, "the editorial policy of TIME promptly underwent a sea change...
Justified or not, the conclusions are convincing. Director Ophuls injects his picture with an air of authenticity by occasionally weaving in remarkable newsreel shots of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in action-its soldiers, palaces, pomp. The death ride at Sarajevo (TIME, July 3, 1939), vividly reconstructed, includes such precise detail as the abortive attempt at assassination during the parade to the City Hall, the Archduke's angry retorts to the Mayor's friendly welcome, the confusion over changing the return route of the parade...