Word: disconnectedness
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Callers to the plush Manhattan offices of De Lorean Motor Co. last week got only a computerized voice: "At the customer's request, 889-8900 has been temporarily disconnected."
In August 1941, Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox was on his way to batting .406. A pair of businessman's Florsheim shoes cost $9.50. The New York Telephone Co. reported that for the first time in ten years more phones were installed than disconnected. The Works Progress...
Rather, he has a close instinct for the disconnected emblems of a moment-the faces glimpsed in smeared newsprint, the sense of not having the whole story that comes from living at no remove from traumatic events.
Sadat was a very great man who made the difficult seem effortless. The difference between great and ordinary leaders is rarely formal intellect but insight. The great man understands the essence of a problem; the ordinary leader grasps only the symptoms. The great man focuses on the relationship of events...
Everyone struggles with the barrage of data that is modern life. Memory no longer seems able to file everything that the senses receive: "Sometimes the things Nikki saw on TV scared her, but a moment later she would forget about them." A new disease has begun to spread: Information Sickness...