Word: detachedness
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It was while he was babysitting his granddaughter - he had a daughter from his first marriage - that he had the idea of writing like a child: detached, simple, in the present tense. "I had this extraordinary illumination, or epiphany," he said. "Children are almost deadly in their detachment from the...
It also saves lives - sometimes in spite of the efforts of doctors, who, in Nurse Jackie, are at worst arrogant and obtuse, at best brilliant but detached. Her best friend, surgeon Eleanor O'Hara (Eve Best), lays out the differences in their mind-sets: Jackie, she says, became a nurse...
On Senior Night for the women’s basketball team in February of 2006, a freshman covered her first live game for The Harvard Crimson’s sports section. I took my seat on press row alongside the then-chair of the Sports Board, excited by the crowds...
From Adams to Winthrop, Mather to the Quad, it has been a fixture of the College’s House system, a concept older than the 12 upperclassmen Houses themselves. But some Harvard administrators say that after a history spanning two centuries and an ocean, the Senior Common Roomâ?...
“So we’ve concocted a fiction, and its nothing to me, really, you know how I feel about these biddies meddling and gossiping and trying to control people’s lives—what I mean is, I’m telling people you?...