Word: distractedness
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Waiting for the Mob. In the first story, Young Man With A Future, a discharged army sergeant, a simple, decent young engineer, comes to Shanghai from Tokyo, where a buddy had already given him a discreet but troubling shot of Communist propaganda. In a rush of guilt, he concludes that...
"The United Nations organization . . . has so far been rent and distracted by the antagonism of Soviet Russia and by the fundamental schism which has opened between communism and the rest of mankind. But we must not despair. We must persevere, and if the gulf continues to widen, we must make...
Sometimes, when entertaining at home with his art-collecting wife, Marie Whitney Harriman, ECA's European chief finds his guests distracted from weighty conversation. His salon is hung with a pink Renoir, a blue Picasso, a Van Gogh bowl of yellow tulips, and a Gauguin. Said one of his...
In Paris, only the distracted French were sympathetic toward the U.S. diplomatic paralysis. Said one U.N. delegate: "We French know the difficulties of internal politics."
But to most American eyes-and to many eyes abroad-the U.S. itself had begun to seem that necessary and hopeful "island of order" in a disorderly, war-littered and distracted world.