Word: detachement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Temporary Blindness. Only minutes after he emerged from Gemini's open hatch, Astronaut Gordon was in trou ble. Though he had done nothing more than detach a cosmic-ray counter from the spacecraft's hull and mount a movie camera on a bracket behind the hatch, his heart was beating wildly, he was bathed in perspiration and panting for breath. "I've got to rest a minute," he gasped. "I'm pooped." After regaining his breath, he inched forward to Gemini's nose, which was securely locked in the docking collar of the Agena target...
...ventricle would be spared much of the strain under which it had labored. While it would not literally rest, it would have a chance to regain muscle tone and strength. That might take as long as three weeks. If everything worked out as hoped, Dr. DeBakey planned to detach the pump from his patient's chest but leave the ¾-in plastic tubes implanted. They might come in handy later. At week's end DeRudder's condition had the doctors baffled. The pump was working extremely well, but he remained in a coma. If he had suffered...
...Supai, Ariz., and in other Indian communities, tribes suffer severe schiziphrenia: should they forget they're Indians and migrate to the cities, should they further detach themselves from industry and prosperity to maintain tribal lands in isolated places? PBH volunteers, as is to be expected, are never able to ease those problems: they work with the immediate emotional needs of those communities, with families splintered by migration and boarding schools, restless children who want to leave the floor of the Grand Canyon
...down Gemini. The two vehicles will be lofted together into space by a Titan IIIC rocket. Once they are in orbit, the spacemen will crawl through a hatch in the Gemini heat shield and enter the lab. For the return to earth, they will simply reverse the procedure, then detach from the 7½-ton canister and descend in the Gemini. Later on, other Gemini crews will take off from the earth, link up in space with the lab, and continue the work...
...Duerrenmatt clearly wants it to be an educational, as well as a theatrical experience, a any good post-Brechtian European playwright would. But he, like Brecht, is a natural dramatist; you automatically empathize with these wacky . So Duerrenmatt could hardly accept idea that an audience must be made to detach itself from the play completely -- forced not to empathize with the characters, but only to think about them...