Word: detachedness
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Helms must have done something to please Smith, for a year later the young radio newsman left Raleigh and WRAL for Washington to work on Smith's staff. After a year as an administrative aide, he was detached to help with Georgia Senator Richard Russell's doomed segregationist presidential campaign...
But on the front porch of Lorna Shuster's guesthouse, where a few survivors of the old Atlantic City gather, the only thing exchanged is conversation. The name of the place is actually the Montpelier Guesthouse-it is at 7 South Montpelier Avenue-but a passerby would never know...
Containing this plot is another box marked 1981, when The French Lieutenant's Woman is being filmed in Lyme Regis. Mike (Jeremy Irons), a young British actor, is playing Charles; Anna (Meryl Streep), an American actress, is playing Sarah. Mike, we soon learn, is in love. To Anna, he...
The clarion voice is there when needed, but Plummer wisely draws on it only sparingly. This is a more reflective Henry than we usually see; we not only hear him speaking but also feel him thinking. He is warmer, too; and we are spared the chilly detached efficiency that can...
The description of Harvard, and the author's nearly half-century association with it, comprises one of the highlights of the book. The professor undoubtedly holds many warm feelings toward the old school; they have served each other's purposes long and well. But Galbraith's unfailing eye zeroes in...