Word: distractibility
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...Congo, where he seems to have incurred the displeasure of nearly all Congolese. Explained one observer: "In the next few weeks, it's just possible we will find the whole crew in the Congo sitting around a table thick as thieves. We don't want to distract them with anything-such as personalities...
...actually was. He tried very cleverly to lead the papers away from reflection on their own inadequate and uncritical coverage of U.S. foreign policy in general, the Cuba affair in particular; in a tone of perplexity that blamed neither press nor President for any crises whatever he attempted to distract attention to the far less important question of how much information the Administration should release, and how much the papers should...
...Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament made militarylike preparations for the pacifist pilgrimage. Marchers got nine pages of advance instructions (e.g., "Don't bring very young children or dogs," "Don't wear anything that will distract the attention of the would from our great issues"). Delegations from towns and foreign countries were issued varicolored identifying arm bands. Trucks carried baggage. An ambulance corps was on hand to minister to blisters on the fourday hike. Mobile canteens provided tea and cakes at cost. Overnight the demonstrators slept in rented schoolrooms, man and maid often bedded down side by side on bare...
...gravest embarrassments to the dictatorship was the daily line-up of desperate Cubans before the embassy seeking U.S. visas to flee his Communist state. As of last week, 52,000 applications were on file. And once again he needed a new crisis to distract Cuba's attention from the growing failures of his Marxist revolution...
...expect other than this, but somehow one does wish he were kinder to tourists, to modern arrangement of pictures in the Uffiizi, to the motorcycles in Ravenna. These, after all, are the facts of life for modern Italy. Berenson seems to resent them for purely egocentric reasons: because they distract his own concentration, or in some way jibe with his memories of the past...