Word: aloof
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Fulbright was a country boy who made it to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar,* and some of his colleagues regard him as an aloof and self-righteous man who never got over the experience. (President Truman once called him "that overeducated Oxford s.o.b.") As time went by, Fulbright grew to prefer the company of the rich and the powerful. He became a confidant of Henry Kissinger and the friend and counselor to Presidents and Kings. In the process, he lost touch with Arkansas, and last week the people of his state...
...governments almost continuously since 1962, when De Gaulle named him Finance Minister at the blindingly early age of 36, Giscard managed to cast himself as the candidate of "change without risk." Even more remarkable was Giscard's personal transformation. For years his image had been that of an aloof technocrat-a man who, as one longtime colleague put it, could not even give audiences the "impression of belonging to the same race" as their own. Giscard appeared to become a different and much warmer man after he brought his attractive family into the campaign, a major innovation in French...
...IMAGE AS AN ALOOF ARISTOCRAT. Franklin D. Roosevelt was a patrician, and Kennedy was a multimillionaire. In the U.S., they represented an idea of progress, and both-Roosevelt especially-led a major reform movement, so one should not be taken in by labels that politicians give one another. Anyone who follows my campaign will see that I have no difficulty in obtaining popular support. In France, people know very well whether you are self-seeking or not, and as they have been observing me for some time, they know that this is not the case with...
That conflict was finally brought into sharp focus Friday night as the two candidates met in a Nixon-Kennedy-style TV debate. Obviously concerned about his aloof image, Giscard at one point snapped at his opponent, "You don't have a monopoly on the heart, M. Mitterrand. I am equally concerned about the social problems of France." The Finance Minister promised to give priority to alleviating the problems of the underprivileged in French society. But Mitterrand wanted to know why Giscard had not advanced such programs during his years in government. The Socialist vowed to pursue new policies which...
...girl and, after a distinguished stint in World War II, won a seat in the Canadian Parliament. He rose to be a Minister of Justice -"the most complex man I've ever known and perhaps the most able," says a colleague-and finally Chief Justice. Throughout, Andrews remained aloof (or, to his many critics, cold), thoughtful (or calculating), devoted to the public good (or his own ambition...