Word: detachedness
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When I look around me and see the bold and shameless tactics which the Harvard administration uses to prevent its workers from unionizing, while students look on in detached amusement (one student even explained to me that she would work as a volunteer scab in case of a dining hall...
Once the movie got under way, however, it was Forman who seemed detached. He worried about not having his Mercedes on hand near the Salem, Ore., mental hospital where the movie was shot (the car was eventually driven out from New York), and kept communication with cast and crew to...
No Abmaphid. The abundance of humor provides constant comic relief. It has an enormously supple range, by turns sophisticated, acid, intellectual, putdown, cynical, broad, black and even sick. The two leads are superb. Dewhurst does not need to bray "I am the Earth Mother." We know it on sight. We...
Sacks said the investigator will be a "detached person" who will be allowed to personally determine how to conduct the investigation.
Although Diggins did not write that passage, it is typical in many ways of this book: facile, distorted, confused, irrelevant, and based on premises the author knows are fallacious. None of the four ever regarded the party as infallible, and none of them ever equated social democrats and Nazis. It...