Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leap forward was taken last July, when the Vatican was formally represented at the Helsinki conference on security and cooperation in Europe -the first international assembly in which the Vatican was an active participant, and not just an observer, since the Congress of Vienna in 1815. China has remained aloof. Despite a number of goodwill gestures by the Pope, the Chinese have shown little interest in dealing with the Vatican. How to establish such relations will clearly be one of the subjects on the agenda of the Alban Hills meeting...
Wright is considered a brilliant teacher who lectures without notes and cites cases from his own books by page and paragraph number from memory. But students complain that he is aloof and suffers from an irresistible urge to drop the grand legal names of the age. When a student once expressed some confusion about a principle of Federalism, Wright replied: "I had some question about that too until I asked Justice Frankfurter about...
What Berryman, i.e. Severance, does is to hide his emotions behind a powerful intellect (a charge often levelled against Berryman in his poems). Severance is cold and aloof, ever-curious to communicate, a witty though egotistical entertainer. But he is unable to relate to others on a basic human level. Only therapy forces him to confront his emotions. And you watch him turn to rigorous exercises in pedantic self-analysis. The same superiority that sets him off from his fellow patients makes him something of a father figure. When one of his symbolic children threatens to leave treatment, only...
...feel better after Watergate. Instead of an aloof, pompous, well-lubricated computerized robot, we have a human being behind the Oval Office desk. C.R. BARTHOLOMEW Miles City, Mont...
CARNIES (or carnival workers) like to keep their distance from marks (customers, suckers and other non-carnies). One way of remaining aloof is to use an argot that is baffling to outsiders. A sampling of carnie terms...