Word: detachment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...including Emperor Hirohito, have studied them lovingly in every possible way. But no one has figured out why they thrive in so few places, or how they reproduce. One theory is that water currents of just the right kind are needed to bounce the marimos along the bottom and detach bits of fuzzy green stuff to grow into young marimos. No marimo lover, however skilled, has duplicated this process...
...atmosphere of good will, a French and a German representative had been haggling all day in the Hotel Bristol over the Saar settlement. The French kept insisting on the word "irrevocable." Adenauer's coalition leaders, arriving from Germany, were firmly opposed to any concession which would permanently detach the Saar from Germany. "I cannot go to my Parliament with some vague promise that we will agree on the Saar sometime in the future," Mendès told Adenauer...
...even better. Says Smythies: a level-headed medical colleague "spent a quarter of an hour gazing at a plain glass full of water and trying to describe to me the perfection of its diamond brilliance." But there are also distortions. The observer may feel his limbs detach themselves from his body and lie on the floor beside him. (Not funny, insists Dr. Smythies.) The room may grow enormously or change shape, the angles becoming alternately acute and obtuse. Time slows down, so that "teatime goes on forever," and the subject "will feel quite literally that...
This poll confirms what most political observers have been saying for months-that Ike can win more independents than any other Republican in sight. (He can probably detach more Democrats...
Lippold's pylon and his ideas about it are among the few cheerful things to turn up so far in what looks like a remarkably cheerless new year. There is something very ingratiating about, a man who can detach himself from reality in a world were reality is terribly present in every newspaper, a world which might be far better off if it stopped worrying about atomic piles and concentrated on putting up pylons. Lippold asks that his sculpture get an annual polishing. It is an undemanding request in what has become a frighteningly demanding world, and we hope...