Word: detachment
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...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...
...stirred up by news and problems of the outside world." The patient's family often misinterpret this state as rejection. "We can be of greatest service to them," the author reasons, "if we help them understand that only patients who have worked through their dying are able to detach themselves slowly and peacefully in this manner. It is during this time that the family needs the most support, the patient perhaps the least...
...successfully on the first try. They know that the Soviets have not yet even tested a rocket large enough to launch a Luna with enough fuel to land on the moon and take off again. They also believe that Russian space techniques are still not sophisticated enough to detach a craft from the orbiting Luna, land it and launch it again to rendezvous with the mother ship for the return trip to earth...