Word: detachedness
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This is not a question of dealing with "our enemies, the Communists," or of being calm and practical in bargaining with "enemy powers"--in this crisis the only enemy is self-wrought destruction. It is a situation which ought to shock us and to force upon us the recognition of...
Soon after reaching their orbit, the two satellites detached themselves from the second-stage rocket. A small explosion separated the satellites themselves, and a spring pushed them apart at about one mile per hour. Their radio transmitters kept sounding loud and clear.
EVERY four years, in just about the length of time it takes to produce a baby hippopotamus, the U.S. brings forth a President. From the first, frosty preprimary campaigning in February until the last hurrah in November, the nation becomes increasingly absorbed with its own inner stirrings, increasingly detached from...
For a jurist, Frankfurter offers a refreshing critique of pure reason: "You damned sociologists, you historians who want to get it all nice and fine on paper, you haven't learned how much in this world is determined by non-syllogistic reasoning." On the subject of religion, he is...
Of all the colonial revolts that have convulsed Asia and Africa since World War II, none have matched Kenya's Mau Mau movement for sheer grisliness. In seven years of terror beginning in the autumn of 1952, 95 Europeans, 29 Asians and 12,423 Africans were slain by methods...