Word: guardedness
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Yet Rojack (like Mailer?) knows so many worlds that he is never an insider. Rojack is in limbo, always a familiar face, always tuned in on the less guarded secrets, but always a floater on the periphery, always a nose pressed against the glass. This is Rojack (and Mailer his...
Chicago's Abbott Laboratories, like most firms in the aggressively competitive drug industry, observes the most stringent plant security: work areas are grilled off and guarded, gates open only briefly for shift changes and deliveries, employee parcels are scrutinized. It is impossible, however, to police minds and memories. Abbott...
Characteristic Prudence. Well aware that their cosmonaut would be exposing his vulnerable body to several kinds of sudden death, the Russian space officials were characteristically prudent. Only when he was safely back aboard the Voskhod II did they announce the flight and release TV pictures of his lofty acrobatics so...
Neutrality & Conservatism. Something like the fairy-tale gnomes that guarded subterranean treasures, Swiss bankers speak sparingly, avoid social ostentation, and bury their money-two floors below ground level in vaults that are built to withstand even nuclear at tack. Nearly half the deposits are in the vaults of five banks...
The Lovers' scenario might have been the banal tale of any tryst set to a Brahms sextet. A provincial housewife grows bored with her lot, takes a pointless, guarded fling at the pleasures of Paris, meets an appealing man and abandons herself to him. Malle decided to be both...