Word: dispassionately
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Such dispassion is all the more impressive now that the steam has gone out of the civil rights movement. Johnson could easily soft-pedal equal rights-many of the Confederacy's 70 U.S. district judges have done just that. But he goes on applying the law to the facts...
In its own way, the Courier, too, is fifty-fifty. It is a conscientious crusader that tries to tell both sides of the story. However violent the event, the Courier reports it with a calmness and dispassion not often matched in easily aroused Northern newspapers. "We've been leaning...
As Editor Davis points out. Hawkins was far less sentimental than Boswell about Johnson's marriage, at 25, to a well-to-do widow almost twice his age. Boswell paints it as a love match; Hawkins accepts without disapproval the more credible view that it was a marriage of...
"Well, let's have-like a class." said Duskin one recent afternoon. Subject: materialism. In ambled Emerson's 13 summer students-mussed boys in need of haircuts (one beard), and ethereal girls in need of bras. Their wan look might have been due to their frugal lunch: beef...
In these poems, Honig most often adopts a position of removal from the subject he is treating, so that even his description of a very personal incident in "Do You Love Me?" combines dispassion with its emotional impact: ". . . Her dying sigh denies/The quiet settling idly on/His polished shoe. One blunt...