Word: detachedness
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You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to know that music is a wonderful thing. But being a neuroscientist might help, at least according to Oliver Sacks. Sacks, it’s true, is no ordinary scientist, and his latest collection of essays, �...
It’s a particularly exciting moment in the American election cycle: the Iowa Caucus is less than a month away, and the primary races on both sides are heating up. At Harvard, signs of Obamamania and Huckapalooza are everywhere. Sort of. To be sure, our various species of...
Gutierrez, like Colombian officials who want to see the trade deal come into force as soon as possible, seems frustrated by those arguments. He grumbles that people who take that view do not recognize the "tremendous progress" that Colombia has made on those fronts. Union member killings are down to...
Our protagonist's parents give him away when he's 6 to a burly army officer and his sickly wife who can't have kids and need help around the house with chores. (Why his parents are so willing to get rid of him is never entirely clear.) In adolescence...
In the snooty triple interview, Hollywood's current intellectual superstars generously heap their unique, self-promoting wisdom on us. Never had I seen a more self-absorbed, pretentious and detached-from-reality list of irrelevant observations and pseudointellectual blather. To top it, the interview spanned two pages and included its...