Word: disconnectedness
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At the Tel Aviv airport, Soblen hailed a taxi, went to the seaside Savoy Hotel, showed the passport, got a room, and began making phone calls to cousins and childhood friends from his birthplace in Lithuania. When he tried one number-41614-he was told that it had been disconnected...
In order to have a staff you must be able to attract people from outside; for that purpose you need more than a "focus of attention" and even more than a good deal of worthy but disconnected activity. One method of making Harvard look appealing is to have a Center...
The poets themselves are partly to blame. Most of them seem radically disconnected from life, from the vital experience that stimulates vital creative work. All too many are perennial art colonists or "fellowship bums"; and nine out of ten teach school. Most poets, moreover, seem obsessed with poetry. Most of...
All this is told in Josephine's voice, registering the shift of her moods and the play of her creative and often distorted intelligence with a scrupulous fidelity to detail. At her worst, in suggesting the heroine's relationship with her mother, Miss Dawson is merely competent, betraying perhaps an...
These fervent emotions are suggested in the six-page article by a series of disconnected impressions: the "violent pace" of daily life, "exhaustively faithful" couples, "repellent" dormitories, and sympathies "flying in all directions." A Radcliffe student "must be bright enough to do well in her courses while she performs Cressida...