Word: detachement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brief Muddle. Will Pasadena's teenagers, who congest the sands of nearby Balboa like mating seals, detach themselves from the herd and grow up to be men and women? It seems unlikely. Only death, like poverty or God, an unmentionable fact of life, offers Decker a vision of life in its grave reality. He flunks a child-watching chore, and his little cousin Buddy dies a Californian death by surfboard. This muddles him for a time, but we are given to understand he will soon settle down to life with the other seals. One of his friends, however...
...level approach to his craft. Other sportswriters tend to search out heroes on the field and to draft purple poetry about them. Povich sees an assembly of grown and muscle-bound men earnestly grunting over a boys' pastime. The sight gives him pleasure. ''You learn to detach yourself," he says. 'After all. it's only a game. You don't have to live and die every day. If you don't take it seriously, you can have some...
...will be a cylinder of strong, heat-resistant plastic up to 1 yd. in diameter, 11 ft. long, and weighing about 1,000 lbs. Inside will be an airtight capsule large enough to hold one man lying face down. A crewman bailing out will crawl into the capsule and detach the lifeboat from the spaceship. As soon as it is clear, nitrogen gas from a pressure vessel will inflate a pair of winglike spars made of heat-resistant woven-wire cloth. As the wings expand, the cylinder will split, forming a heat shield that will protect the leading edges...
...already plentifully visible: "The unwillingness of many recent Catholic college graduates to join parish or church organizations; the flight from Catholic higher education of many young Catholic scholars; the transference of the zeal of many apostolic Catholics from Church to secular organizations; the desire of innumerable Catholics to detach themselves from any cultural attachment to the Church, to lose themselves in a sheltering, pluralistic society." Callahan thinks that the frustration of lay hopes could lead to anticlericalism, but sees a more immediate danger in the dissipation of the contemporary layman's eagerness to serve. "The whole lay apostolate," Callahan...
...attach it to the nose of the command module. After arriving in the vicinity of the moon, they will burn a little more fuel to nudge their ship into a 100-mile-high lunar orbit. Then two of the crewmen will crawl into the bug through an airlock and detach...