Word: detachedness
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Joseph A.M. Sena '99, co-chair of the council's Levenson Committee, said it was important to recognize undergraduate teaching at a large research university where renowned professors are often detached from their students.
As a young seminary teacher, Khomeini was no activist. From the 1920s to the 1940s, he watched passively as Reza Shah, a monarch who took Ataturk as his model, promoted secularization and narrowed clerical powers. Similarly, Khomeini was detached from the great crisis of the 1950s in which Reza Shah...
HLS needs to butt out. Its statement shows its disrespect for a military that has kept it not only safe but detached from its dangerous work, and in addition, shows its utter lack of understanding of the issues that are involved in the consideration of homosexuals in the military. When...
Where to start? Here's the short version: Deconstructing Harry, the new movie from writer-director-actor Woody Allen is a) very funny, b) very unfunny, c) very personal, d) strangely detached, e) dense as hell and f) strangely unsatisfying. Here's the long version:
(d)Strangely detached--In the ways noted above, Allen distances himself from the material, but his directorial estrangement goes far beyond his own character. Through both his writing and directing, Allen systematically destroys any chance for his lead actresses, specifically Judy Davis and Kirstie Alley, to do any acting at...