Word: detachedness
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In Washington, we wonder about welfare and wait. Detached and impuissant.
"Yet today the 'Christo et Ecclesiae' has been detached from 'Veritas.' 'Veritas' is now unanchored," Monroe said. "I think that in a pluralistic world that is perhaps necessary and understandable but we should at least allow students to explore what the founders had in mind."
"People are more motivated by issues in politics than by a more detached, rational view of the constitution and civil rights," McLachlan says. "There is nothing sexy about civil rights."
Other students say that Radcliffe is simply too detached from the rest of the University.
"I still think of Vietnam as one of the defining political events of my life," says Johnson, a former T.V. news producer about to launch a second career. "Being at Harvard during those years and feeling that the institution had contributed so many strategists to the war gave it an...