Word: aloof
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...glimpse of the Pope, something that is far easier to do than it used to be. Papal general audiences were formerly held indoors, in St. Peter's Basilica, and the Pontiff was carried into the vast church on a portable throne called the sedia gestatoria, an aloof figure out of reach of the crowds...
...Chambre 15, the room he has occupied during his weekly visits to his parliamentary district for the past 35 years, he had wandered into a small thicket of journalists in the hotel dining room who were waiting for the early projections from sample precincts. In contrast to his usual aloof attitude toward reporters, François Mitterrand seemed to want company during these final hours of his long vigil. Yet he is a failure when it comes to small talk and so he had avidly seized on a remark about how it always rains here in Chateau-Chinon. Forthwith...
...overriding explanation given by French political analysts the morning after was that the public was simply tired of the aloof, arrogantly aristocratic Giscard and was anxious for a change. Admitted U.D.F. Leader Jean Lecanuet: "The idea of keeping the same leadership for 14 years was a factor." Jacques Fauvet, editor of the left-leaning Le Monde, agreed. "François Mitterrand's victory is first a victory for alternation, that is, for democracy," he wrote in a front-page editorial. "For more than 20 years the same family, in spirit, had been in power. A large part...
...majority of the French, the time had come at last for a dramatic change in the nation's long-frozen political landscape. Seven years under patrician, aloof President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing were enough. Twenty-three years of government by the same center-right majority had proved too much. As if they had been dared once too often to take the risk, French voters this week chose Socialist Leader François Mitterrand, 64, an unflappable veteran politician whom many thought a perennial loser, as the fourth President of the Fifth Republic. They thus embarked...
Giscard's aloof and occasionally haughty personality clearly has not endeared him to many of his countrymen even if they respect his intellect-and, at times, his courage. Last week, as 'he stepped from a jet in Ajaccio, Corsica a bomb blast ripped through the airport terminal. An emotional Giscard denounced the attack as "cowardly" and vowed not to waver from his schedule. Such rare passionate moments aside, however, even one of the President's most trusted aides admits that "he has not won the hearts of Frenchmen. Giscard is from the Auvergne region, where the people...