Word: aloof
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...debate there, Laxalt warned him bluntly: "Campaign or we're heading for disaster." Reagan dropped his protective politicking, entered the debate ring in New Hampshire, and his campaign took off. A relaxed personality, Laxalt is a popular figure in Washington, where many other conservatives tend to stand stiffly aloof from the press and their less ideologically rigid colleagues. The Senator has warned Reagan that he should not carry his anti-Government pitch so far as to antagonize the entire Congress. "If you don't have close relations with Congress," he said, "you have to be an ineffective President...
...could hardly hope for a better successor to Jacob Javits than Elizabeth Holtzman. Their styles match almost to a fault; both are characterized as extremely intellectual, hard-working and issue-oriented, if detached and aloof from their colleagues. And both have worked to champion social justice issues, both have remained committed to liberalism when it was no longer a popular cause...
...near future"-the caution was typical of the man-"American art should be weaned from its French mother." But by the end of the '30s, his aching, rigorous vision of American social isolation, the vacant brownstone windows and blowing curtains, the solitary coffee drinkers, the aloof houses robed in chalky light against the sky, had been assimilated, against his will, into something much coarser: the kill-Paris chauvinism of the "American Scene" painters, so that to inattentive critics it seemed all wrapped in the same nationalistic package...
...been replaced by the watcher, or voyeur, whose act of watching included the creative functions or "eye" of the artist. One is company, two is a crowd: such is the implied mot to. This, perhaps, is why one senses so in tense a bond between Hopper and his apparently aloof, disconnected human subjects. The distance between the self and the other was bridged by an acute feeling of common predicament-a much more valuable thing than the compassion routinely expected of social-realist painters...
...judicial philosophy was a relentless defense of individual rights. His nearly absolutist views on the subject brooked no debate. His preference, he admits, was for "creating precedent," not "finding it." If he does not describe the give and take of court procedures, it is probably because he held aloof from most of them. He quotes the observation of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes: "Ninety percent of any decision is emotional...