Word: detachedness
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Walzer acknowledged the rights of Faculty members to act freely in accepting classified research contracts, but added that "the danger is that the University may cease to be a community of detached, critical intellectuals.
There is as much paradox as music. Dylan is arrogant and charming, protected and protective, petty and detached, eloquent and inarticulate. He stands once removed from what he is because he can escape into the black hall and white light of the concert, into his songs where he can't...
After two study tours in an attempt to close that gap, Huntington still considers himself much more of a detached observor than an active policy maker or suggestor of policy. His dispassionate attitude toward what might conservatively be called the most dangerous world crisis in the last 25 years gives...
So far, chromosomal breaks in drug users have been shown mainly in test-tube growths of cells from the patients' blood. What disturbed the geneticists was that the breaks and other abnormalities appear to be identical with those known to be associated with some congenital disorders. At successive stages...
The Beatles are the ultimate symbols of the posh, respectable vie boheme. They live in the suburbs that the Rolling Stones Knock in their songs. They have never dropped out from society. They have never had to slum it to gain a sly, detached, enlightening line of sight on the...