Word: detached
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...most discouraging aspect of this mess is that the quarterbacks themselves are never sure where they stand. Yovicsin admists he is an organizer first and says that the nature of his job "forces him [Yovicsin] to detach himself from the players...
...should be afforded the opportunity to disrupt the affairs of a major university to the detriment of the vast majority of students." Radical domination on campus will continue, the jury said, until citizens and the campus community "take a strong stand." The jury added: "The time has come to detach from university society those who persist in violent behavior. Expel the troublemakers without fear or favor. Evict from the campus those persons bent on disorder...
...been argued that students will detach themselves from the bulk of the war machine if they confine their anti-war activity to the relative isolation of college campuses. Since World War II, however, the government has become increasingly dependent on the intellectual resources of the American university to fuel that machine. The billions of dollars which federal authorities dole out each year to the nation's most eminent scholars to perform war-related research-not to mention the talent they avail themselves of in return-constitute an irreplaceable item on the government's yearly budget...
...that moment, the music of the radio stopped, and the news broadcaster announced that state police, National Guardsmen, and naval detach-ments off New Haven were standing by for tomorrow's demonstration. He then quoted Yale president Kingman Brewster as saying that "the potential of constructive progress is greater than that of disruption." A black man lowered his face into his hands and chuckled softly...
Underlying all this is a profound sense of tragedy. There is no way for an Israeli to objectify the war, to somehow distance it so it becomes less painful. Few Israelis would want to detach themselves in this way, but even if they did, it would be impossible. For the country is small (2.5 million) and the war is everybody...