Word: detachedness
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No Forfeit. Brewster is determined to preserve the combination. His inaugural address pledged the university to keep aware of the outside world, while preserving a haven for the detached pursuit of knowledge. Yale may hook up to educational TV, Brewster said. It might even train volunteers for the Peace Corps...
It is, of course, unthinkable that on his first trip to Latin America he should arrive in a U.S.-built plane. So the Boeing 707 on which Charles de Gaulle is to cross the Atlantic will be parked at Pointe-a-Pitre in Guadeloupe, and he will fly on to...
Charlayne's stay at the university was in a sense more frustrating since she had no honors to justify her experience. Her contact with white students became less tense, but she was never able to establish friendships. Discouraged at the inability of Negroes to raise funds for her scholarship and...
The respiration gasmeter, invented at the Max Planck Institute of Dortmund, Germany, weighs 81 Ibs., is about the size of a lunchbox, and includes a transparent face mask attached to the box by a flexible hose. It operates on the principle that physical work involves energy consumption that can be...
Though his book is wildly comic, Simckes also means to be profound. Gleich's humanizing influence on the son, Barish, is subtle and significant, awakening in the previously uncommitted and detached narrator pity--even for the most twisted form of life. Simckes also suggests the crucial necessity of ritual and...