Word: detachedness
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"I think the idea is rather prevalent among a great number of people that what the country needs is a spectacular, if not flamboyant, charismatic figure as a leader," Nixon has said. "There are some others, however, who might say that when you really have a crunch, when it is...
It would be hard to think of a less "American" painter than Bailey, 41, who teaches at Yale, where he had earlier studied under Josef Albers. Modest in scale and completely unrhetorical, his pictures seem European-the work, perhaps, of a less mature Balthus, minus the overtones of perverse eroticism...
Comparisons with The Catcher in the Rye are inevitable, simply because all novels about youth in flight are still measured against Salinger's. But what such a weighing shows is chiefly that Yglesias' tone-far more detached than Salinger's-is completely his own and that Holden...
A chief drawback attaching itself to Hawkes's first-person narrative technique rests with none other than his narrator, Cyril, who (as one gathers early on) is the archetypal "multisexualist." Through Cyril's eyes--his center of consciousness--the reader surveys obliquely a "tapestry of love." The Arcadian setting is...
McCulloch was unable to report for this week's cover story on Hughes; he was detached from his duties as New York bureau chief to help with LIFE'S up coming serialization of the Irving book. Eight other correspondents took up the task. Donn Downing tracked down friends...