Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This has been all to the advantage of the monocled and aloof interim President. Spinola, relaxing for the past few weeks in a thermal resort north of Lisbon, has managed to play a deft political game via long distance. His primary bid has been for greater presidential powers, including the dismantlement of the A.F.M. and a declaration of a state of siege to deal with economic problems...
...Aloof Abstraction. The material is mostly drawn from Italian museums and churches, and it has its gaps, caused by the inimitable pigheadedness of Italian art bureaucracy. Thus Ravenna would not lend the most important single Byzantine object in Italy, the 6th century ivory throne of Maximian. All the same, one could not wish for a better introduction to Byzantine influence in Italy-not only the works made in Constantinople and then imported or looted, but also the ones made by the artists of the Adriatic coast. All the canons of Byzantine style are there: the liturgical stateliness of form...
...Paris, Caramanlis adroitly remained aloof from the day-to-day infighting of Greek politics, but he kept in close touch with developments in Athens and no one ever doubted that he was only biding his time until Greece would one day see fit to call him back. When the call finally came last week, he was both ready and willing. Even his old political opponents agreed that "Costa" Caramanlis was the only man who could rally the country behind him. Explained Constantine Mitsotakis, an exiled leader of the Center Union Party and one of his old opponents: "Caramanlis embodies...
...roundly criticized for not applying enough pressure sooner on Greece, Kissinger denied the charge, telling TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott: "From the first day, we told Greece that we did not want enosis [union], and we told the Turks that we did not want enosis." Nonetheless, after remaining aloof from the crisis during its early days, Kissinger spent much of the weekend after the invasion talking on the overseas telephone to London and Paris as well as Athens and Ankara, helping to arrange the ceasefire. With his active intervention the Western alliance was able to exert considerable pressure on Turkey...
...much of the trip, Kissinger seemed unable to savor his contribution to Nixon's triumph. He was morose and uncharacteristically aloof, having threatened to resign on the eve of the flight to Cairo over the continuing accusations that he was less than truthful about his role in national-security wiretapping (see following story). That was unfortunate, since the changes in the Middle East have been nothing short of astonishing since Kissinger went to work in the wake of the October war. Eight months ago, Egyptians regarded Nixon as the villain who was sending Phantom jets to the Israelis...