Word: aloof
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...quit. A genial Mississippian who died in July at 61 from a heart attack, Smith had reportedly told friends that his job "just wasn't fun any more." Some insiders said that he was forced out as a result of a personality conflict with the firm's aloof chairman and chief executive officer, J. Paul Austin...
...know Howard Baker. I know Phil Crane. I know Bob Dole. I even know John Anderson. They all know me. But I don't know Ronald Reagan. If he came into a room where I was, someone would have to tell him my name. He is the most aloof politician I have ever encountered...
...suggested in the following portfolio of intimate photos by David Douglas Duncan, Picasso remained Picasso: an indefatigable worker, a lover of mischief and pranks, quirky, increasingly aloof, mercurial, yet often remarkably generous and warm. In Viva Picasso, a book to be published by Viking next fall, Duncan describes how, in the course of preparing some Picasso canvases for photography, he took a swipe with a feather duster at a 1938 self-portrait-and smudged a part of the canvas. Writes Duncan: "I spent the whole morning dabbing with spit-moistened Kleenex trying to reduce the damage, to clean away...
Vatican sources emphatically denied any such motivation. The Pope's decision, they said, stemmed from his general views on the separation of church and state. John Paul has repeatedly said the church and its clergy must stay aloof from party strife. In Mexico in January 1979 he said: "The church wishes to stay free with regard to the competing [political] systems, in order to opt only for man." These views presumably reflect the fact that one reason the church in John Paul's native Poland has been able to thrive is that it has kept strictly apart from...
...still swirling with apprehensions in the wake of the stunning, couplike arrest of the former martial law commander, General Chung Seung Hwa, and a dozen other senior officers by a group of aggressive younger generals. For another, U.S. diplomats and military leaders in the capital who had previously stood aloof were now actively urging that the South Korean military keep clear of politics, and that Choi's civilian post-Park regime try to broaden its popular base. Reason: a major fear in Washington that if internecine mistrust in South Korea's top military leadership gets much worse...