Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weighty and formidable, one of those worthy projects the reader sets aside for a time when his mind and calendar are clear. But in hard cover, the text seems brief and often irritatingly superficial. Wakefield's viewpoint wavers. At times he is the visitor to a small planet-aloof, amused, rational, watching the antics of the savages. A few pages later, stumbling into earnestness, he takes the tone of a housewife who majored in political science writing a letter to the editor of the New York Times...
...Harvard and Yale insist on remaining aloof from that test, a policy which has generated mild irritation among Harvard fans who would like to see the Crimson racing with real competition, especially in these high-glory years of Harvard Crew. Pennsylvania is favored to win the IRA's again this year, as it did last year...
This firm belief in the traditional university of tolerance and individual expression does not keep Ford aloof from any students. After the Dow protest, for instance, he devoted four days to hearing the opinions of students, junior faculty, and faculty on the pros and cons of punishing the demonstrators before he formulated his own position. In a typical fashion, he maintained an orderly list of the arguments on each side. In the end, he favored the most lenient possible punishment that would also deter a recurrence...
...little or no use for the doctrinaire polemics of Students for a Democratic Society. Many students reluctant to march or picket have nevertheless been stirred to face the issues raised. The jolting, dramatic atmosphere created by defiant demonstrators, television cameras and, frequently, charging police have left only the most aloof students untouched...
...country headed into last week's municipal elections, Dominican President Joaquin Balaguer kept conspicuously aloof. He made no campaign speeches and withheld endorsements, ordered other government leaders to do likewise. By seeking to confine the campaign to local issues and personalities, Balaguer hoped to avoid making the election a national plebiscite on his two-year government and thus avert partisan fireworks. Yet, in the end, the election still came down to a vote for or against Balaguer. A heavy turnout of 1,000,000 voters gave his Reformista party and other pro-Balaguer independents an estimated 90% of both...