Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These are voices-some voices-of the Negro revolution. That revolution, dramatically symbolized in this week's massed march in Washington, has burst out of the South to engulf the North. It has made it impossible for almost any Negro to stay aloof, except at the cost of ostracism by other Negroes as an "Uncle Tom." It has seared the white conscience-even while, in some of its excesses, it has created white bitterness where little or none existed before. And right up to the President of the U.S., it has forced white politicians who have long cashed...
...mood is that of Sean Lemass, who four years ago succeeded Eamon de Valera as Taoiseach (Prime Minister). Though Lemass has been De Valera's protégé and heir apparent for three decades, the two men could not be more dissimilar. "Dev," the aloof, magnetic revolutionary with a martyr's face and mystic's mind, was the sort of leader whom the Irish have adored in every age. Sean Lemass, a reticent, pragmatic planner called "The Quiet Man," is by temperament and ancestry more Gallic than Gaelic, and represents a wholly new species of leadership...
Wain deals with this in a way that is not aloof, but as if it had been observed by a sympathetic stranger. His family portrait serves as a reminder that all the English puritans were not harried out of the land; some stayed in old England to keep up. generation after generation, a solid but mainly silent opposition to the glories of blood and state. The Wains were pacifists, and the family felt holier-than-thou toward both working class and rulers: they alone were "saved" in a world of wicked madmen. Wain records the effect of this upbringing...
...protect them with the hamlets," says one U.S. adviser, "our problem may be licked." However, most South Vietnamese peasants are still either passive or actively resentful of the Diem regime, which is often personified by oppressive, corrupt local administrators. For all his high hopes for the program, aloof, autocratic President Diem seldom stirs far from his yellow palace in Saigon to visit the hinterland and generate enthusiasm for his cause. Sneaky Petes. The area of the government's greatest frustration is the Mekong River Delta, where 55% of South Viet Nam's population is centered...
Nothing, however, precludes a Young Republican member from being intimately familiar with issues on his own. And by working as well in the Young Republican Club he learns early the lessons of practical politics that can give him sounder judgment than the aspiring Republican who remains aloof from the YR's. If his experience brings enemies early, it also brings firm friends. From shared political projects in the Young Republicans, peripheral and unaffiliated organizations can spring...