Word: detachedness
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Maugham is dark, pale - with eager, somewhat quizzical eyes. He is detached. I cannot imagine his being perturbed. His speech is slow and his anecdotes are brilliantly effective. He strikes me as a man who sits outside of life watching with almost cat-like eagerness. He understands life too well...
M. Poincareé stated that France will not interfere in the internal affairs of Germany, neither will she attempt " any permanent domination of territories detached from Germany." Her entire conduct is actuated by the single desire to obtain payment of reparations.
I met Dos Passos at a tea in Greenwich Village. He is a large-headed, stumbling figure, who appears far younger than he is (27). He talks as he walks, in starts and stumbles. He is unbelievably shy. He will sit for hours at a table, either talking brilliantly or...
All cells in normal health, he believes, maintain an equilibrium between positive and negative electric charges localized in certain parts of the cell. When cells are exposed to constant irritation, the positive charge increases, destroying the balance, and stimulating overrapid cell reproduction. These cancerous cells may become detached and " run...
He further pointed out that America might well take a lesson from the new republics that are springing up in Europe. They have had a chance to study the American theory of democratic government from a detached viewpoint, and when forming their own constitutions it should be interesting for us...