Word: aloof
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Things may change, but playing ball and staying slightly aloof never do. No matter what, the comfort level on the mound is the same, the feel of the seams familiar...
...scorn that arises from my confession, I cannot act aloof about the fact that I might retain a few dozen more brain cells than my cable-enhanced companions. While I suppose I could be proud of my eccentricity, I have learned from experience that revealing this fun fact about myself is simply not in the same category as double-jointedness or coming from Guam. Unlike an entertaining personal anecdote or funky physical feature, TV-lessness brands you as a black hole in the universe of normal social interaction...
...course, the complaints of two undergraduates, in spite of their rhetorical potency, should probably not trouble Kirby excessively. More worryingly for Kirby, though, over the past week 11 Faculty members, from a broad range of disciplines, voiced similar concerns to me, arguing that their dean was aloof and unengaged with their priorities...
...also true that Kirby can point to his open-door policy for all Faculty members and his Monday office hours for students as evidence that he is not a remote figure, unwilling to listen to others. The danger of his being perceived as aloof is real, however. Kirby, a famous scholar of Imperial China, should be all too cognizant of the dangers of having University Hall seem like Harvard’s equivalent of Beijing’s Forbidden City: a walled compound, ostensibly in the middle of things, but really isolated and insulated from the real world all around...
...largely spared during his primary campaign. In the meantime, the campaign has rows of binders cataloging Kerry's votes and speeches and, sources tell TIME, it has asked focus groups about the Massachusetts Senator. Not surprisingly, officials say, he comes across just as Republicans have tried to caricature him: aloof and ambivalent. "He is not a look-you-in-the-eye kind of guy," says...