Word: detachedness
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Significance. From a wholly detached point of view there was "no immediate cause for alarm." As the dean of French diplomats, Jules Cambon, has said: "The Germans do not want war; all they want is the rewards of victory."
Mr. Okeson believes that football and all intercollegiate competition is more likely to endure if the colleges strictly control such competition and keep it in its proper place. "The tail cannot forever wag the dog," he says. "As a passing spectacle it may be interesting to observe such a freak...
Robert Fitzgerald's Poems are much smoother and more conventional in form. His themes are often familiar-his Boston poems include a "Charles River Nocturne," glimpses of the Common-and he writes of autumn woods and winter nights. A dominant note in his poems is loneliness, but it is...
CATCALLS - Peggy Bacon - McBride ($2.50). For her collection of caricatures, Off with Their Heads! Peggy Bacon supplied brief prose texts that described her victims in mean, oblique phrases. Thus Franklin Roosevelt's head emerged as "a big trunk, battered by travel and covered with labels, mostly indecipherable." Cat-Calls...
The unwordly worship of theory, the aloof reserve, the detached and implacable prudence, which the uninitiated customarily attribute to the colossi of the chess world, apparently disintegrate once the wizards of the checkered board sniff a good Queen's Gambit or sense a toothsome French Defense in the offing.