Word: detachedness
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Walzer agreed Jewish intellectuals were beginning to examine Jewish issues more fully. He said the growth of Israel and the acceptance of Jews in modern culture makes unnecessary the "traditional, detached, skeptical Jewish intellectual" in the university and the world.
But Thomson said the basis of the difficulty lies in her fundamental philosophical difference with Marius over the role of a teacher. Thomson says she believes good teaching demands compassion toward students as well as detached criticism. "Marius major objection to fiction and the way we teach it is that...
His own wanderings produced the raw material for most of his fiction. There are striking similarities between the African backgrounds in Black Mischief and Scoop and descriptions in his travel books. Military service in Britain, Crete and Yugoslavia during World War II supplied incidents for Men at Arms, Officers and...
What follows is much more than simply another anatomy of a January-June mismatch. In Malamud's world, acts have consequences, mindless pleasures lead to reflective pain. Things start badly. Dubin takes Fanny on a quick trip to Yenice, hoping to feed on her vitality and youth, and gets...
THAT ARROGANCE is an attractive proposition. It breeds easily in an institution that professes to take The Long View of human affairs, to see The Big Picture it is the heady sense of self-importance that dawns when you realize you are looking way beyond the trivialities of daily life...