Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN President Georges Pompidou arrives in Washington this week to begin a nine-day stay in the U.S. -his first state visit-Americans will get their first good look at a leader who is a far cry from the regal and aloof figure of Charles de Gaulle. What they will see, in fact, is a man who has substituted pragmatism for grandeur, who wants to govern France rather than rule it, who emphasizes the continuity of the government rather than the man. Like his host, Richard Nixon, Pompidou can already claim two important domestic accomplishments: he has lowered the national...
There is growing evidence that Harvard will not be able to remain aloof from the plans for community health care at the A.H.C., and will have to assume a portion of the responsibility for failure to meet the health needs of community residents in Roxbury and Jamaica Plain in the 70's in the event no changes are made in the current plans of the A.H.C...
...looks and sounds like the kind of aloof chauvinism that, from this time on, will hurt Harvard more than it can possibly help...
...deny that rock 'n' roll is not on the way back. In Russia, the teenagers are now listening to versions of "Shake, Rattle, and Roll," recorded in 1954 by Bill Haley and the Comets. Sha Na Na has thrilled audiences at Woodstock, the Electric Circus, and at places as aloof as Yale. The time is ripe for revolution, time to make true Danny and the Juniors' statement in song that "rock 'n' roll is here to stay; it will never...