Word: detachment
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Boston's salvation is still being worked out in the schools, although coverage of events is not so heraldic. The salvation of the press, however, might depend on the ability of newspapers in the future to detach themselves more from the events which they report...
...reaction. In some place, like the neighborhood in which I live, people understand the need to decentralize, but in a way that actually will detach them from the big institutions; that will permit them the space for their own survival, not just the 'privilege' of being volunteer rather than coerced servants of institutional ambition. (An industrial version of this occurs when a management lets workers form production teams rather work on the assembly line. Production, of course, goes up. The workers are a bit happier. But their relationship to the ruling institution remains unchanged. They have been made happier...
...through July 1972, when the Democrats will convene in Miami Beach. To aid the prospective giver, McGovern's managers thoughtfully offer a time-payment booklet, similar to those issued by friendly finance companies. "For a better America," a note on the booklet's cover advises, "detach another coupon from this booklet and mail it with your monthly contribution." Since April, when the installment plan started, only 7% of the contributors have fallen behind on their payments. The candidate has not yet been repossessed...
...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...