Word: detachedness
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Even professors who are detached from the student body contribute to the atmosphere of learning on campus.
Quickly, Steve and Larry explained the basics of several meditation traditions, among them the Southern Buddhist tradition, which focuses on breathing patterns. Their own method, they said, is a hybrid of several traditions. But, they said, the goal of any sort of meditation is to lose yourself, to become so...
Some comedians suggest that the Tonight show will turn Leno into an electronic vaudevillian, a video jokemeister. He worries about that. "I went from telling jokes to telling stories," he says, "and now I'm back to telling jokes." He is concerned about becoming detached from his audience. As a...
Clinton's greatest strength in Chicago is among blacks. "He talks to our concerns," says Alderman Bobby Rush. "Tsongas is too detached, too ivory tower." What ethnic whites see as weakness is viewed as almost charming by some blacks. "Life is life," says Charliemae Towbridge, who heads the Chicago police...
Take Douglas. He is delightfully convincing as the detached, debonair, duty-bound white knight. Although Leland's macho characteristics are not always appealing to the audience, Douglas manages to make him endearing. Able to make the audience laugh, but not forget for a moment the gravity of the material, Douglas...