Word: aloof
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...trying to assure the city's leaders that he did not mean it personally. He was also launching a kind of pre-emptive strike against the backbiting that often goes on over the capital's dinner tables, especially against a President who seems to be an aloof outsider. Accordingly, his aides sent invitations ("When Nancy and I are in Washington next week, we hope to greet old friends and make new ones") to the people who run the city. "Are you sure this is serious?" one incredulous invitee asked in a phone call to Reagan's transition...
From boyhood on, he made few friends because he was so aloof and acerbic. He lost the only woman he loved (Aideen O'Kelly) by making her feel like an intellectual donkey. He has squelched his wife (Helen Stenborg) and berated his truest friend (Pat Hingle) for being a boozy buffoon...
...support in the Midwest and Northeast. But in the 1980 campaign his appeal seems to be based at least equally on his personal integrity and low-key style. An easy-going politician who is respected by liberals and neo-conservatives alike, Mondale has to a degree counterbalanced Carter's aloof and sometimes caustic personality. As one politician noted, "Mondale simply has no negative constituency." And in an election where many of the ballots cast will be negative votes, this is seen as an important attribute...
...parliamentary vote of 1978. Rocard is far more comfortable with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's brand of social democracy than with the quasi-Marxist yearnings of his own party's left wing. Mitterrand's intentions are a mystery. Most likely, he will try to remain aloof, hoping that a divided party will turn to him as a unifier at its January congress. Giscard professes to be unfazed by Rocard's candidacy. The President's advisers are convinced that Rocard will fall victim to what Frenchmen now call the Teddy Kennedy phenomenon: a sharp decline...
...MINORITIES apparently eschew Harvard? One answer in the report--provided by a former Faculty member now in charge of minority affairs for the American Psychological Association--is that minorities don't like the atmosphere here. They consider the University "aloof and cold, the racial climate in Boston forbidding, junior faculty positions more insecure than at other schools, and the cost of living unusually high...