Word: detachedness
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Place of honor in Professor Ziegler's rubbish was occupied by a futuristic oil painting, The Adventurer by Satirist George Grosz, done in 1917 and sold in 1928 to the Dresden Stadt-Museum. Gaping Nazis gazed at the figure of a cowboy poised with savage alertness and virility amid...
Of the four canons living within the Close of Silbury Cathedral, The Canon was short, paunchy, 60-year-old Carmichael, who after 24 years of devoted service embroils the Cathedral in the worst mess that ever rose out of a canon's past. An unbending traditionalist, he fidgets through...
¶ Declaring himself tired of C. I. O. attempts to organize his workers, the general manager of Apex Hosiery Co., Philadelphia's biggest non-union hosiery mill, shut down his plant one day at noon, locking out 2,500 employes. Massing outside, they were joined by some 10,000...
By a few choice pages the huge province of Burma, nearly seven times the size of England, was detached from India alto gether and set up as a separate British realm. Its ruler was appointed last week by the Emperor, George VI, his choice for Governor of Burma lighting upon...
LUCIFER IN PINE LAKE-Samuel Rogers -Little, Brown ($2.50). Told with detached and crushingly cumulative irony, the story of a handsome university professor whose selfishness wrecks his marriage, leaves him hoping that an early next war will annihilate himself and everything else; fifth and best book by the $10,000...