Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate will pose some of the sternest tests for Carter. There his major projects are most in danger of sinking. In the House he can count on the support of Speaker Tip O'Neill. He has no such ally in the upper chamber. Not only is Byrd more aloof and elusive than O'Neill, but the Senate barons who control the important committees owe nothing to Carter, and in some cases are hostile. Where the President needs the most strength, he is the weakest. John Sparkman, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is 77 and too exhausted...
...excessive" even by Soviet military historians. Solzhenitsyn coolly chronicles the passage of troops through Prussia as they swill schnapps, set fire to towns and villages, rape and murder German civilians and loot houses of items ranging from vacuum cleaners to Vienna rolls. As the narrator, Solzhenitsyn at first remains aloof, offering a succession of vignettes of violence without comment. Only once does his voice break, seemingly to signify some greater grief than the desolation of war. The moment comes when the narrator sights an "endless" column of Russian soldiers marching under guard. These are the former German P.O.W.s who were...
...neglected promise of Christ's coming reign in a kingdom of righteousness, was a ringing call to optimism and activism during the days of "God is dead" theology. Then, in The Crucified God (1972), he looked back to Christ's Passion as proof that God is not aloof but has surrendered himself to experience suffering within human history. Having explored the Christian future and past in those two volumes, Moltmann now completes his trilogy with a work that knits both themes into the present...
...these days at the monastic life he must lead to do all the work before him. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance is obviously a more cautious and thoughtful man after his encounter with the Soviets in Moscow. The White House men like Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell still stand aloof from Washington, suspicious of its protocols, staggered by its costs, confusion and hypocrisy. Now and then Carter himself seems on the verge of discouragement. Rarely is there a glimpse of the exhilaration of wielding power that has marked almost every other recent President...
...West arms race in Africa." While watching the developments in Zaire closely, the new Administration remains hopeful that Nigeria's mediating efforts may still succeed. Behind the scenes, Washington may have played a part in soliciting aid for Mobutu from Morocco, France and Egypt, but officially it remained aloof. Said a White House spokesman: "We do not see the situation as an East-West confrontation...