Word: aloof
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Indeed the Fogg has made a scholarly contribution to art history-recreating the draftsmanship and the atelier of Giambattista-but by contrasting the works of Degas with Tiepolo the Fogg could have contemporized the exhibit: Tiepolo's aloof world of the religious could have been viewed in comparison to Degas' off-stage world of the dancer. Degas' attempt to take the viewer backstage, to remove the dancer from her idealized position, would complement Tiepolo's pedestal art. A single color cannot evoke the vibrations that two juxtaposed complementary colors...
...ideals of the university conflicted with its drive to preserve and expand its equity. Elsewhere he draws useful distinctions between Columbia's schizophrenic structure and the reasonable, though uninspired and often outdated men who attempted to manage it. Former President Grayson Kirk, for example, is viewed as an aloof, poorly informed man who rode around in a black Cadillac licensed GK-1. By contrast, S.D.S. Leader Mark Rudd shows a jungle instinct for the weakness of his elders; he emerges as a troublemaker, possibly useful as a goad in a good cause, but essentially a shortsighted opportunist...
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...
President Marcos, under attack by his enemies for his pro-U.S. policies, remained aloof from the squabble. But he betrayed his uneasiness when he told a meeting of local officials about his fear of being killed by "subversive elements"-a notion probably nurtured by the prediction of a soothsayer that he will be assassinated before April...
Rage and Reform. The first Harvard president not raised in New England, Pusey remained aloof from much of the faculty, and believed that his job allowed him little time to get to know his students. With his strong sense of personal morality, Pusey stoutly defended the rights-and jobs-of Harvard professors who drew the wrath of his onetime Appleton neighbor, Joe McCarthy. But in a different situation, his steadfast independence and his instinct to protect Harvard proved costly. Faced last spring with the S.D.S. occupation of University Hall, Pusey refused to negotiate and angered a large part...