Word: detachedness
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Despite the blaze of controversy that invariably follows him, Douthat prefers to take a philosophical, somewhat detached viewpoint. “I regard myself as a conservative in the aesthetic sense,”he muses. Expanding on this, Douthart tells how, in a creative writing class at Harvard, he...
Calamities may reinforce reflexes more than they work miracles. This crisis, says clinical psychologist Jeffrey Slutsky, "can serve as a catalyst for reconciliation if the people involved were already primed for it. But it takes more than even these traumatic events to change people's character." In fact, crisis may...
But between that volume and this one came Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, one of the damnedest books of all time. Tapped by Reagan's inner circle to be the President's authorized biographer, Morris had unprecedented access to Reagan, who turned out to be the man who was...
To reinforce this important theme of inaccessibility, of the utter uniqueness and unnaturalness of the world he films, Weber employs all kinds of unsubtle cinematic devices. Within the frame of his movie camera are more photographs, more cameras, flipping pages full of mementos. Interview subjects direct their comments not to...
“In the first week, everyone was sort of numb, and that was the ‘death of irony’ phase. But the use of the word irony is sort of incorrect. People were referring to aloof smugness, detachment, and it was hard to be detached...