Word: detachedness
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The latest crisis differs radically from previous U.S. bouts of unhappiness with the U.N. As a founding member of the organization, Washington has usually tolerated, although sometimes restively the posturing of U.N. members as a necessary safety valve in the chaotic world of international politics. No longer. The most recent...
As a reporter, you try to stay emotionally detached from the story whatever the story. And yet for me, the Webster story has become different. I find myself day-dreaming that perhaps at the next press conference, Joan will finally be there to explain.
The President first made clear what the U.S. would not accept. One was the opening of any more Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. Since 1967 Israel has established roughly 100 settlements in those territories, housing about 30,000 people. Arabs fear that the purpose of the settlements...
Nudes are a continuing preoccupation of Soyer's. His studies have an erotic quality that is unexpected in so detached an artist. The bodies-always female-are not beautiful in the classic sense. Heavy-haunched and often pregnant, Soyer's models have inspired his freest, most impressionistic and...
Fifty-five years later, Mumford still displays the same hatred of the mechanistic and the totalitarian, whether promulgated by a ruling junta or a local zoning board. He swears by "the fusion of the emotional and the intellectual, the equal awareness of past and future . . . the unwillingness to put any...