Word: detachedness
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As Parents' has changed, so have its readers, and each partly because of the other. Said Clara Littledale: "Twenty-five years ago we adhered to a very rigid schedule in feeding and raising children. John B. Watson's theory of behaviorism was the thing at the time. It...
The basic thought and planning of this work fell naturally to Max Ways, Foreign News Editor of TIME for the last five years. He has at his disposal, in addition to the regular staff of U.S. and foreign correspondents, a task force from the MARCH OF TIME, which was detached...
Angry cries of protest sounded throughout Alabama and Mississippi. The 31st's commander, Major General Alexander G. Paxton, announced that morale and training had "hit a new low." Alabama's fat and usually jovial Representative Frank Boykin boiled up, introduced in Congress a sweeping resolution designed to stop...
The critic cannot take a detached attitude, Emmanuel felt. "He must take the chance of being utterly wrong if he wants to be utterly right." The critic who becomes a mere professional reader of books is worn out and useless, Emmanuel concluded.
On hot days when there is a lot of glare, Thurber sometimes sees a face that looks to him like Herbert Hoover's; at other times, there appears what might be the George Washington Bridge flapping in the wind. Thurber is never bitter about his blindness, nor self-pitying...