Word: detachedness
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Passionate Detachment. Bertrand Russell scoffed at Santayana's detached philosophy as the result of "emotional privation." It is true that Santayana was leary of emotion all his life, especially sexual emotion; he had come from a cold and broken family. But Biographer Cory shows how much passion can be...
To demonstrate his support for the force, De Gaulle last week donned flowing white robes and, looking more Delphic than ever (or perhaps like a bather), inspected two key nuclear plants, Pierrelatte (which is reportedly several months behind target) and Cadarache. On his 20th provincial tour, he treated audiences to...
∙COMEDIES: British humor sometimes fails to function cisatlantically, but five British comedies are having a go at Broadway this season. Semi-Detached (Oct. 7) is a mad knitting of woolly middle-class values in English suburbia. Enid Bagnold's The Chinese Prime Minister, not yet produced in London...
THE readiness of South Viet Nam's Buddhist monks and nuns to burn themselves to death as a means of protest against the government both moves and repels the West. On the surface, it seems an odd phenomenon in a religion generally regarded as passive, gentle and full of...
IT was bound to happen sooner or later. Though Robert Elson is TIME'S bureau chief in London, and his son John is TIME'S religion editor, they have had little chance to work together professionally-except as competitors. Last year, when Robert Elson was detached to write...