Word: detachedness
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That evening Tatum was unable to sleep. He thought about his life-insurance policy and how, if he had got killed, the Navy would have had to read all the letters from his girl which he had saved. "A hell of a job for somebody." But then he pulled his...
At 47, hard at work on a 15-by-11-ft. mural for the 1951 Festival of Britain, Sutherland remains detached enough to wonder whether painting is here to stay. "Cinema and television," he admits, "might provide sufficient visual art to satisfy people's needs. I myself would be...
Out Like Toothpaste. As the air rushed out of the cabin, the doomed dummy rose from its seat, shot toward the window and was forced through it like toothpaste extruded from a tube. When the pressure simulated an altitude of 40,000 ft., the dummy shot clear across the room...
No Nonentity. When Harry Truman became President, Ross wrote for the P-D a cool, detached judgment of his old friend: "He has been called an average American, but he is better than average. He is not a nonentity and no Harding. He may not have the makings of a...
This afternoon the squad from St. Anthony's was even larger than usual. As it raced onto the field, we moved to meet it. Then, one of its members, a small wiry boy with wild hair and a field jacket which was much too large, detached himself from the crowd...