Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Negroes have their own case to present: to them, the Africans sometimes seem deliberately aloof. Says LeRoy Bolden, a Negro who was an All-America halfback at Michigan State in 1953 and is now doing research at Stanford: "Most of these Africans are high ranking, chiefs' sons or others with the contacts needed to line up an American education. They want to identify themselves with the group on top-and that's not us. Try calling one a Negro. Chances are he'll correct you by saying 'I'm an African...
...Dawn. What long masked all this was Rice's former name, Rice Institute, which was finally changed last year. Rice has been a model university ever since it opened 49 years ago under aloof, derby-hatted President Edgar O. Lovett...
...took to the road, speaking at Rotary Clubs, conventions, board meetings-any gathering of businessmen that would tolerate him. He still spends half his life traveling and lobbying. At a recent meeting of the American Society for Industrial Security, Couch was introduced as a man who "has not remained aloof in an ivory tower or vacuum as some Government officials are inclined to do ... Because of this shirtsleeve working approach to his job, he has developed a program which is practical, down to earth, and workable." Says Couch, of the industrial efforts now taking place: "What is happening in industry...
...director of International Studies at Columbia University's Teachers College. Short and barrel-chested, he uses crutches as a result of childhood polio, has been chief engineer on the campus radio station and announcer of home football games. David Fisher, 21, short, unkempt, slightly aloof, is the group's musical arranger and the only Highwayman who is seriously interested in music. Son of a public school principal in New Haven, he wants to take a Ph.D. in musicology...
While more and more retailers stampede customers with discount prices and waylay them near home with suburban branches, the pride of San Francisco's Post Street, Gump's Inc., prospers by remaining as aloof as Kipling's cat. With arrogant contempt for trends, Gump's eight years ago sold its only two branch stores (in Honolulu and Carmel, Calif.), and the nearest thing to a loss leader a Gump's customer can expect to find is a pair of pewter and brass candlesticks reduced from $250 to $125. Yet in a little more than...