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Flag Gaffe. While Charles retained his princely cool, a personable, polished blend of animation and decorum, Anne was alternately aloof, bored, alert and quizzical, as befits her highly independent character. Aboard the sluggish presidential yacht Sequoia, which can do only nine knots-and whose crew made the colossal gaffe of flying the Union Jack upside down-she asked to transfer to a 60-m.p.h. Coast Guard launch for the Potomac cruise to Mount Vernon. At the Smithsonian, she was intrigued by the astronaut space suits, and asked U.S. Moonman Neil Armstrong: "Is there a danger of a rip?" Replied...
...about the bogus exaltation of human tragedy to cathartic spectacle, wherein great men fall from pinnacles in the all-seeing determinist universe of the Fates. Director Laurence Senelick has chosen the Seneca version over the traditional Sophocles "to remove the play from the realms of both Freudian psychology and aloof neo-classicism." This may also mean that he has chosen a play which, because of its gore and violence, leads to a denial that there is anything more in suffering than suffering; a denial that tragedy can be uplifting in transcending itself. The production calls for a belittling (rather than...
Because Walzer sees the state as aloof and parenthetical, pluralism itself must keep peace in society. Mediated group activity combats the alienation effect of the state on the individual. In Walzer's model of confrontation, the organized group resists the state, but citizens relate to the group as isolated individuals. An obligation to the group may collide with an obligation to the state. It may also conflict with personal honor. A man's comrades demand his cooperation. On the other hand, each man must use his own eyes. How, Walzer ponders, does one resign his comrades? Behind his Lenin-flavored...
...wonders what the cause-effect relationship is here. Have we had disruptions at Harvard in part because of the aloofness of the President's office? Or is the President aloof because of the added time he spends planning strategies to quell student demonstrations? Pusey seems to fear that if he gives some of his time to one student group, he will badly neglect the job of starting additional University programs and raising more money...
More than anything, young Michael wanted to be an American, one of the crowd. But his parents were exiles not only from their own place but their own time. Father was witty and aloof, Mother imperious and ill-tempered. She had sought to escape her own protected past "into this unusual man's vitality, life, imagination, energy-well, as maybe with many men, it turned out to be an especially fragile kind of energy...