Word: detachedness
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During the complacent 1920's, U. S. citizens read with detached horror of the hordes of savage children, orphaned by revolution and famine, who roved Russia in vice-ridden, thieving bands. Now almost completely socialized are the Soviet's waifs. And now over the U. S. wanders a...
Joyous Johannesburghers reveled last week in "the biggest boom since 1895." While South Africa's currency, recently detached from the gold standard (TIME, Jan. 9), slowly declined, South Africa's gold mining shares doubled & tripled on Johannesburg's big board, carried other common stocks up with them...
Written while Mr. Fraser was still devoting himself to a mastery of counterpoint and orchestration, these essays show a keen perception and understanding. Whether he treats of Prokofieff or Wagner, he writes with a detached and unwavering judgment. To him the greatest of music is a combination of form and...
The dismissal resulted in active protests on the parts of the students. Certain students were suspended as result of a disturbance in front of a police court. In considering the case we must remember that a college is not a body politic. The citizen enjoys rights which the student does...
After the emotional severity in the "passion" group, the second gallery, that devoted to the Dreyfus case, is relieving. The color is livelier, the faces are illuminated with genuine human feeling; the smiling rascality and the jovial bonhommie of the French shines through the haggard mask of the flesh. Dreyfus...