Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President has so far attempted to remain outwardly aloof from the conflicts in Texas. He did choose Governor Connally to place his name in nomination at the Atlantic City convention but that was natural enough since Connally was chairman of the delegation from Johnson's home state. He has also gone to great lengths to cement his relations with Ralph Yarborough and there is no doubt that the Senator wholeheartedly supports...
Because he has stayed aloof from the civil rights revolution, Jackson is often called an "Uncle Tom" by local leaders of CORE, SNICK and N.A.A.C.P.; civil rights pickets periodically march outside his Olivet Baptist Church in south Chicago. In return, Jackson has denounced as un-Christian demonstrations outside segregated churches, and insists: "I can't harmonize picketing with praying." Jackson condemns civil disobedience on the ground that no one has the right "to break any law, even if it is morally wrong." He believes that integration should be achieved strictly through governmental process, and has urged his National Baptists...
...Pittsburgh Symphony musicians. For another, he blatantly delights in performing "the music nobody wants to play, nobody wants to conduct and nobody wants to hear." The traditional image of the success ful symphony conductor is a shaggy-haired despot who rules with an iron fist and remains disdainfully aloof at all times. But Steinberg treats his musicians with courtesy and respect, regales them with a rich sense of humor, rides in the bus with them on tour, and preaches such heresies as "gaiety is the only atmosphere for music making." As for the age-old maxim that deviations from...
Everyone knows how exasperating Charles de Gaulle was during World War II. Arrogant and aloof, he demanded his own way, and when he did not get it he sulked. At times he seemed to irritate F.D.R. more than Hitler or Tojo, and Churchill grumped that "My biggest cross is the Cross of Lorraine." But French Historian Robert Aron contends that the Allies never understood what De Gaulle...
Typically, Shastri had stayed aloof from all the politicking. Next morning, he rose early, had a modest breakfast with his family. He was the last to reach Parliament, where the other Congress Party members were already gathered beneath the high dome of the central hall. In a soft, reedy voice, tiny (5 ft., 112 lbs.) Shastri promised to carry on Nehru's work. Then he drove to the Jumna River to pray at the site where Nehru had been cremated...