Word: detachedness
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Thomas apparently lived in the classic certitude that personal charm and poetic gifts entitled him to special treatment. "There is no necessity for the artist to do anything. There is no necessity. He is a law unto himself, and his greatness or smallness rises or falls by that," he wrote...
It is hard to connect the author of this passage with the soft-spoken, philosophical man who came to Boston last week. Fast looks on the hardships of his life with a curiously detached perspective, pointing out very reasonably that they were important to his writing. In the Communist Party...
The unbuilt showpieces, like Hilbersei-mer's high-rise city or Le Corbusier's ville mdieuse, are detached and scary: vast tower blocks, broad relentless avenues, a crushing regimentation. The idealism of the functionalist heroes (Mies especially) has the perfect internal unity of farce. It belonged to the...
The film, which won critical acclaim for its chillingly detached view of the 1950s, will play at 6 and 9:45 p.m.
Apartments make more efficient use of land than single-family houses do. For a while early in the 1970s, apartment building surged, but now taste is swinging back to the classic detached house. Apartment construction fell even more rapidly than house building during the recession of 1973-75 and has...