Word: detachedness
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Marriage of Heaven & Hell. The Princess with the Golden Hair is a quiet but ambitious attempt to anatomize, through the narrator's contrasted affairs with two women, the U.S. middle class and the U.S. proletariat. The bourgeois wife, Imogen, is a convincing redigestion, in contemporary terms, of the kind...
In clear and detached fashion, F.D.R. told his own case history:
Juan Gris, least-known artist of the four, was, with Picasso and Braque, a founder of Cubism, and remained, far more than they, a constant adherent of Cubistic methods until his death in 1927. Cold and monotonous at first glance, Gris' ascetically detached still-lifes reveal, upon longer acquaintance, an...
Iron Faces, Clerkly Gifts. Sitting in London's crowded Central Criminal Court, she noted "the men with iron faces who belong to the special police," the defense counsel "who pecks at his cases like a sparrow, as tireless and as careful of the smallest grain," and the intelligence officers...
Aragon: Poet of the French Resistance (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, $2), edited by Hannah Josephson and Malcolm Cowley, offered a translated selection from among four of the six volumes of verse which this facile versifier wrote in France during and after the German occupation. Aragon was celebrated in this volume as...