Word: detachedness
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Admiral Joy was commander of U.S. Naval Forces in the Far East when he was detached from the happy duty of battering the enemy to the job of armistice negotiator. At the start, he still held the old-fashioned notion that a line might well be drawn at the points...
The most sought-after politico in Italy today is Pietro Nenni, 64, the yeasty, eloquent leader of Italy's Red Socialists. Ever since the center-right Christian Democratic coalition proved itself unstable, Italian politicians have been hypnotized by the possibility of an alliance with Nenni's party. But...
"They put me on a stretcher and in a minute or two I saw some blue specks . . . In about eight minutes or so after the stopping of the sled the blue specks became constant and pretty soon they became blue sky and clouds. I saw one of the surgeons wiggling...
Equal Among Equals. Without authority, Molnar argues, the intellectual can no longer impose his values on others, cannot play his "traditional role of detached analyst, creator and critic of ideas . . . For the intellectual is now considered only one part of society-an equal among equals-and is not thought of...
Ritual Orgies. Fitzgerald married Zelda on the $5,000 advance royalties of his first novel, This Side of Paradise, and they set off on a mad fling that was to span the decade, cover a couple of continents, and wind up with Scott an inveterate alcoholic and Zelda a hopeless...