Word: detachedness
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"Patient, detached, careful study by scholars is called for. If it is not done, other people will do the task in a different way and less effectively."
Searching for the origin of cataracts on the human eye, Dr. John M. Wheeler of New York University Medical School, like the British physiologists who plucked the eyes from unborn chicks and found that they grew in "a surprisingly natural way" (TIME, Oct. 4), ripped bits of living tissue from...
The Habima Players of Moscow offer the same play in Hebrew. Their production is notable for its frank theatricality. Not the slightest regard is paid to ordinary, familiar realities. The players confess themselves actors of parts, paint their faces with unusual pigments in strange designs, interpret their mysterious emotions before...
I feel exceptionally detached from this play, since it is on a foreign original and since it was produced in my absence. At the moment of writing I have seen one desperate rehearsal; and as a friendly critic I predict a great success.
So said Justice James Clark McReynolds, "one of the most detached, most solitary, least worldly men in public life," when a majority of his fellows of the U. S. Supreme Court upheld the power of the President to remove post-masters and other statutory Federal officials. This vital decision was...