Word: detachedness
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In the longer term, demand is kept high, probably too high, by a post-World War II psychological phenomenon. Americans have come to look on a home of their own?and a pretty big, detached, single-family house at that?as not just a desire but a need and almost...
Unnamed People. Under McCarthy's handling these woes do not turn into soap opera. She is a sharp and lucid observer. But she is so detached and dignified that the novel lacks fire. Her gentility dulls the effectiveness of a potentially enlivening technique: the difficult one of mixing real...
Kahn's writing appears to have lost that fire of personal reminiscence in The Boys of Summer. No longer the nostalgic chronicler, the detached Kahn is drier, less compelling. But that is not enough to kill the book; indeed, it only makes it easier for Kahn to create sharper, less...
In accepting money from the KTA, with such obvious links to the corrupt and repressive Park regime, the University exhibits a drastic leap of faith. The acceptance of the grant should not be construed as an acceptance on the University's part of the policies of the Korean regime, nor...
The paintings have been hung so that the varied architecture of the Fogg's galleries shows each group to its best advantage. The medieval beams set in the ceiling of the large room to the right of the courtyard inspired art historian Millard Meiss, during his brief term as director...