Word: detachedness
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They awoke to a clear, bitter-cold Wednesday. Ike put on his old battle jacket-with no rank insigne, but still sporting the flaming-sword shoulder patch of SHAPE -and wool Army trousers, then added a fur-lined Army field parka and a pile hat. First, he flew off in...
The implication is that education which takes a detached view of life and society, that never leads students to face issues . . . tends to produce men and women who are spectators rather than actors . . . They view both sides of questions with equanimity, seeing the strengths and weaknesses of each . . . but never...
Elephants, he says, cannot see clearly beyond 25 yards, but they can hear and smell for hundreds of yards, and sometimes farther. More than once he followed groups of elephants which had detached themselves from the main herd; when he revealed himself, the groups fled. And at the same moment...
All these changes have done much to democratize the clubs: no longer can they be characterized as F. Scott Fitzgerald did in the '20's: "Ivy, detached and breathlessly aristocratic; College, an impressive melange of brilliant adventurers and well-dressed philanderers; Tiger, broad shouldered and athletic, vitalized by an houest...
The very qualities that make some of his countrymen distrust Dean Acheson and his policies were just what were needed to make him a success at U.N. last week. He set out to convince the doubters, the neutralists, the holdbacks and the timid in the General Assembly on the Tightness...