Word: detachedness
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Officially as detached about NATO as ever, the French promised nothing. But Charles de Gaulle was shaken by the invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the French have shown some signs of cooperation-where their own interests are clearly at stake. Some French commanders quietly continue to participate in infantry exercises with...
Methodical violin playing, too many moments of imprecise ensemble, and a lack of metrical relaxation, especially in detached quaver figures, severely qualified the final work, Mozart's Symphony No. 29. I think that this was primarily due to simple orchestral fatigue after an especially strenuous program. The Andante, however, was...
Quivering Wings. In the fierce wind at Djémila, he finds the natural renewal that defies the despair leading to suicide: "The violent bath of sun and wind drained me of all strength. I scarcely felt the quivering of wings inside me, life's complaint, the wea'...
This attitude towards moral considerations--the child so involved in a game that he does not notice its consequences on the "real world" outside the world of the game--gives us a clue towards the origins of this kind of consciousness. We can approach it, I think, if we imagine...
To his friends, he is a vigorous, burly, bearded man with a booming voice?possessed equally by his love for Russia and his passion for freedom. To the Stalinists, his enemies, he is the arch-accuser, the self-appointed prosecutor, blackening Russia's name abroad. His works blaze with the...