Word: disconnectedness
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The article on Angola by Peter Shapiro, published in your September 18 issue strikes me as being a disconnected piece. The first part describes what are obviously his personal impressions of Angola. He rightly states that "there is no atmosphere of war instead there is a feeling of confidence. The...
The reasons for such reactions vary considerably. Oxygen deprivation during surgery, leading to identifiable brain disturbances, explains only a handful of cases. Many problems appear to be emotional in origin. Most patients go into such operations with anxiety, sometimes depression over both the risks and the results. Those who survive...
Pointing out that the act had embodied a disconnected series of earlier civil service rulings, Judge Gerhard Gesell said that it had been used to cover even a person who bet on an election, who drunkenly criticized a political party, or who failed to discourage a spouse's political...
But when the ticker was disconnected by "a friend who knew a lot about electricity" and carried to the Ambassador, a red light flashed at Western Union offices. Dietrich's friend had incorrectly hooked up a resistor that should have prevented this. The Western Union men rushed to the...
What De Chirico's work from 1911 to 1918 brilliantly performs is an archaeology of the self. Images rise from childhood memory with a peculiar, disconnected intensity; they are fragments of a lost life, like sculpture found in the rubble of an ancient city. "If a work of art...