Word: distractedness
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Actually, Brown, who was formerly a National Affairs writer in New York, is only 38, and my guess is that what really distracted him from the tigers was the perennial worry of TIME'S three correspondents in India (Bureau Chief James Burke and Achal Rangaswami are the other two...
Empires & Operators. By the folklore of Washington, the man who manages the operational functions of an organization will mold its policy in the long run. This has come to be an accepted law of administrative life, as solid as Newton's laws of motion. Consequently, career State Department officials...
On most campuses, no one would think there was anything very strange about the ideas of Frank Richardson. A mild-mannered man with a distracted, scholarly air, he is chairman of the biology department at the University of Nevada, has never done anything more unorthodox than ride to class on...
Meynell got more than he bargained for. Tormented by the struggle to break the opium habit, Thompson distracted himself by writing poems, essays and book reviews. He soon became well enough to return to London, where, in 1893, Meynell arranged publication of his first volume, Poems. But those who imagined...
The U.S.S. Helena, bearing the next President and his advisers, coursed for Hawaii under a sunny tropical sky. The Pacific's mood was good for pleasant cruising, and the admiral's cabin an equally pleasant place for palaver and planning. No phones distracted, no callers importuned as the...