Word: aloof
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...this hassle, Harvard has remained surprisingly aloof despite the threat of losing its own land. In 1964 President Pusey wrote a letter to the New York Times stating that Harvard wishes "to ally ourselves with the Times and the individuals and organizations who are protesting the plans of Consolidated Edison...
NORMALLY, they seem aloof. Since the Cambodian intervention and the Kent State killings, Administration figures have been more visible and voluble. Last week they were still receiving student delegations, appearing on TV, granting press conferences and private briefings, conferring with Congressmen, labor leaders-and even each other...
...approval of a reorganization of France's governmental structure. Since then, De Gaulle has remained, except for one brief trip to Ireland, sequestered in his nine-acre, walled-in estate atop a small hill in the village of Colombey-les-Deux-Egiises, 120 miles southeast of Paris. More aloof than ever, he has received only a handful of the faithful, and has refused all requests for private political discussions or larger meetings. De Gaulle's notes from Colombey, written in his proud hand, are as highly prized as were Napoleon's scribblings from Elba. His invitations...
...roles are long and unsurpassable difficult. Miss Yakutis has a good deal of breath and body control but was the most mechanical and aloof I have ever seen her. Snyder was repetitive in gesture and volume, and is in fact, exceedingly careless in his part. I doubt that he comprehends the nature of Antony's shame in the great scene III, XI. for he was clamorous and brutal. This is the still moment of shame. The tone should be lyrical self-examination, during the exhaustion of shame through to the reassertion of resolve. It is the tone of Achilles...
...writes articles for Playboy and other magazines, and is an outspoken off-the-bench activist on issues ranging from U.S. recognition of Red China to the ecological misdeeds of the Army Corps of Engineers. Such advocacy piques those who feel that Supreme Court Justices should be more magisterial and aloof from politics and public debate; there is the real danger that in discussing so many issues so freely. Douglas may prejudge matters that may come before the court...