Search Details

Word: detachedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

You know, rock's in trouble when you start reading about "trends:" the New Eclecticism, the Emergence of the Superstar, the Electronic Wave, and so on. When change happens, the excitement doesn't permit detached reflection. No one mulls over, "Where's the music going?" It just goes, and it...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Folk and Country: Now More Than Ever | 1/26/1973 | See Source »

Living out West in Oregon for ten years (1949-61) gave Malamud a sense of home, however temporary. "It was where my wife had a feeling of roots: our daughter was born there. We still have a great deal of fondness for the area and spent a few weeks there...

Author: By Celia B. Betsky, | Title: Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Experience | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

THE WRITER is often doomed to remain a detached observer, but Malamud holds a firm stake in life through his teaching activities. "The more I think about it, the more I realize that if I had had talent in the sciences, I would have wanted to be a physician. My...

Author: By Celia B. Betsky, | Title: Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Experience | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

Here Bergman seems to be working again within that still, grave place from which sprang such transitional works as Brink of Life or Hour of the Wolf. This is not, like Persona, one of his greatest, most enlarging films, although it does bear some superficial stylistic resemblances to that early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Four Women | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

Playgoers and critics alike may be excused for having missed Storey's central concern. In his earlier plays, his spare, meticulous and almost detached naturalism tempted us into thinking that Storey was dealing in slivers of life, when he was actually showing us life being shot away. Almost nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Sisyphus Agonistes | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

Previous | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | 159 | 160 | 161 | 162 | 163 | 164 | Next