Word: withdrawnness
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...withdrawn European troops, he said, could be added to the United States contingency in Asia, saving about $1 billion per year...
...columnist is Joseph Alsop, prophet of the Imminent American Victory in Vietnam, and a man who has devoted his mature life to the pursuit of chimerical creatures. Nothing in American letters is so tragically commonplace as such a columnist--from whom the oracular grace has so obviously been withdrawn, who has been wrong so many times that no serious person talks or listens to him anymore, but who continues to bowl on in abject public humiliation. The fallen columnist, in his world of transcendent absurdity, can simply invent news; witness Alsop's recent smear of Harvard professor Martin Peretz...
Painful Awakening. Kimball bases his findings on observations of more than 200 open-heart patients during the past six years. Of this number, at least 70% suffered some psychological aftereffect. A few became euphoric, assuming, sometimes incorrectly, that the successful surgery had solved all their health problems. Others became withdrawn and depressed, convinced that neither the operation nor the care they were receiving would help. In some cases, there were lapses in the ability to read or speak. One 50-year-old man found himself unable to understand a simple sentence, or count backward from 100. A 57-year...
Cheatham old and a native of Philadelphia ranked second behind Bair with the citizen groups and second behind Seymour Grechko of Detroit who had withdrawn earlier with the teachers and students...
Like its savage anti-hero Alex, A Clockwork Orange will soon be subjected to a tiny taste of the Ludovico Technique-that brain-blowing treatment that was to rid Alex of his sado-sexual violence. At the end of next month the Stanley Kubrick film will be temporarily withdrawn from theaters to allow the censors' scissors to transform it from an X- to an R-rated movie (children under 17 admitted with parent or guardian). After 60 days Clockwork will emerge from the Motion Picture Association of America's purification rite shorn of its scarlet letter...