Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Governor, Reagan brought a new style to Sacramento, which had grown accustomed to the backslapping ways of politicians like Democrats Pat Brown and Unruh. An intensely private man, Reagan stayed aloof from everyone in the state government except his closest aides. Even they found him to be reserved. Says former Press Secretary Ed Gray: "The staff was never buddy-buddy with him. He always maintained an employer-employee relationship...
Schmidt was only half joking. Since becoming Chancellor 18 months ago, he has stood somewhat aloof from his Social Democratic Party, refusing to get involved in the endless theoretical debates on how democratic socialism should be built. Instead, the cool, pragmatic Chancellor has concentrated on managing West Germany's affairs of state. Although Schmidt has always been highly regarded by the voters (in one recent poll, 70% of the West Germans gave him a favorable rating), he has never been popular with his party's left wing, the Jusos (Young Socialists). Complicating matters, ex-Chancellor Willy Brandt...
Gangacharan (Soumitra Chatterji) is a Brahmin and pundit, part doctor, part spiritual adviser to the villagers from whom he holds himself gently aloof. Merchants at first spare him a littie rice as an act of deference. But soon, Gangacharan becomes like everyone else, hungry and helpless to do much about it. "There is no rice," a merchant swears to him. "I would not lie to a Brahmin." He would, of course, and does; the villagers all suspect it. There are food riots. Ananga (Babita), Gangacharan's wife, lowers herself to work grinding rice while some still remains. When that...
Historical Sense. Always apart, a little aloof, with neither an ideology nor an all-encompassing aesthetic theory, Trilling put his main emphasis on a "historical sense" in criticism. He once described his curiosity to know "what at a certain time people liked or demanded in the way of literature and for what cultural and historical reasons." Within that historical framework, he attached considerable importance to literature as a moral phenomenon. He delighted in recalling the day a student told him that George Orwell was "a virtuous...
...posts in the past five years ... As Mr. Clean (or mostly clean) in Watergate, could offset some resentment of Ford's pardon of Nixon ... Commerce spot poor training for the Veep Sweeps, but Ford could give him added responsibilities ... Known to balk at the whip and for being aloof...