Word: detachedness
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Before Sept. 11 people laughed at Bill Clinton when he asked what the definition of ‘is’ is and it was the coolly detached age of irony. Now people ask what the definition of irony is and it is just confusing. Is irony a stance of...
Aliens blowing up the White House. Calling game-show contestants "Survivors." Background shots of the New York City skyline. Caring about Gary Condit's and Anne Heche's love lives. Videogame warriors blasting through ruins. Insult comedy. Smug, detached comedy. Political comedy. These are just a few more of the...
“It’s like lying down on the couch in public—and while a writer may be willing to do just that, it is a strategy that most often simply doesn’t work,” she writes. That is because of...
Which doesn't mean Delbanco is a prig. When he venerates Puritans, it's not because they were moralists but because, as his research suggests, they were more searching than self-assured, believing "that the self without God is helpless" and yet finding themselves in this confusing, isolating new land...
Many Americans have long supported Israel’s response to terrorism from a totally detached perspective. We are no longer removed from the terror. It has invaded our shores and wreaked havoc on our way of life. Now is the time for us to adopt the methods of our...