Word: detachedness
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The Pentagon papers say: "The explanation of how the U.S. mission became detached from political realities in Saigon in August 1963 is among the most ironic and tragic of our entire Viet Nam involvement." Unfortunately, it is no different in 1971.
Though American business loudly proclaims its concern over ecology, pollution, poverty and race, not many companies are willing to subsidize their employees to work on these and other problems outside the factory or office. A few firms, including Cummins Engine and Prudential Insurance, have detached people to do good works...
It was clear that, in such a scheme, the White House would hold predominance in the policy field. How much influence Kissinger would have-as opposed to Nixon's other advisors-was not yet evident. As the "options" man, Kissinger would be expected to give a fair, objective account of...
Like the Austrian minister who became his greatest political hero, Kissinger has used his position in government as a protective cloak to conceal his larger ambitions and purposes. Far from being the detached, objective arbiter of Presidential decision-making, he has become a crucial molder and supporter of Nixon's...
"At 15 I visualized myself as a world-famous author of 70 with a mane of wavy white hair. Today I am practically bald." This balding, world-famous author. Vladimir Nabokov, celebrated his 72nd birthday in Switzerland last week by working on a new novel that may be called Transparent...