Word: detachedness
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These losses are not localized: President Nixon is discouragingly far ahead to a Democrat pondering a campaign role. But despite the bleary immediate prospect for the McGovern campaign, despite the changing nature of activist student organizations. Harvard is not politically detached. More likely, its students are only now catching up...
Truthful Witness. At the beginning, to be sure, Solzhenitsyn sets out a number of narrative seedlings that he clearly expects to nourish to fuller life in future volumes. Among the best minor characters are a rich, rough, self-made landowner named Tomchak and his studious daughter (who may be drawn...
There was a time when John Huston understood such people and such desperation. A comparison between his evocative rendering of being on the bum in Tampico in The Treasure of Sierra Madre and the windbag theatrics of stumbling around Stockton, Calif., in Fat City is a measure of how careless...
Doubts. The Nixon endorsement of Agnew was apparently made on the narrow ground of an illusory partisan advantage or out of purely personal loyalty. The decision should have turned on whether Agnew is fully capable of taking over the presidency if the need should arise. Although Agnew tends to arouse...
If anybody can untangle Italian government at this point, it would appear to be Andreotti. He is both experienced and so cool and detached in his political dealings that he is said to have sangue ghiaccio (icy blood). Andreotti is Italy's first Roman-born Premier since unification. He...