Word: detachedness
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The author is an expert on the painting of the 18th and 19th centuries and a teacher at London's Courtauld Institute of Art. Her six previous novels include Hotel du Lac, the 1984 winner of Britain's top fiction award, the Booker Prize. Yet despite her finished style and...
. Dukakis has always prided himself on being a hands-on manager, yet he has detached himself from his presidential campaign--claiming he had no knowledge of the smear campaign against Joseph Biden mounted by his best friend and campaign manager, John Sasso.
But President Arias, no less than President Ortega, is necessarily a creature of his time and place. His northern neighbor is run by committed Leninists with announced plans for a 600,000-man military. As the President of an unarmed country whose ultimate protector, the United States, has proved itself...
There has always been something of the self-delighted mischiefmaker about William F. Buckley Jr., America's Tory toreador. In his summer-weight spy thrillers about the Ivy League CIA agent Blackford Oakes (The Story of Henri Tod, Saving the Queen), the payoff lies partly in the impudence with which...
There are some thing that the Harvard social life needs, and there are some things it doesn't need. Finals clubs fall into the latter category. Where do you think Harvard's uptight, snotty, and detached social atmosphere comes from? Certainly not from the snotty, exclusive, all male finals clubs...