Word: detachedness
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¶ Temporarily, the State Department is filling both McGhee's and Rusk's posts with career diplomats: Middle East Expert Burton Y. Berry and Far East Specialist John M. Allison. Probable permanent successor to McGhee: West Pointer Henry Byroade, 38, an Army colonel on detached service, who is...
Law & Leadership. The United Nations has "largely failed," Taft says, because its charter pays too much attention to "peace and security" and not enough to "law and justice." This is a point of the utmost importance, and one frequently ignored in discussions of international relations. Yet after making the analytical...
¶"France is a lay state which is rigidly detached from religion." Dr. Mackay found the influence of France's 700,000 Protestants important out of all proportion to their numbers. Even France's Catholics, he claims, show Protestant influence; seven "distinguished Roman Catholic clergymen" told him they...
Garrett's starter, no bigger than a fat suitcase, is a miniature gas turbine engine. It is started at the press of a button by its own storage battery, runs on kerosene, and has enough power to start a big jet engine in 30 seconds. It is light enough...
But La Ronde is all of a piece, as any round should be, setting up a mocking harmony of desire and disillusion, vanity, pleasure and deceit. It is never prurient, smirking or pornographic. For all the intimacy of its nuances, the film's approach is dryly detached and completely...