Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old Brooklynite and American Legionary; Senator Robert Wagner; Morris S. Tremaine, five-time State Comptroller; and Albany's Mayor John Boyd Thacher II, who gave Herbert Lehman a fight for the 1932 nomination with Tammany's ardent backing. In Albany Governor Lehman remained aloof from the shouting. To newshawks a close friend remarked: "It would take an earthquake to make him change his mind...
...Aloof From Politics
...Jung is a thorough-going Swiss--bluff, independent, wise and utterly aloof from political entanglements. To a mind of such university the Nazi racket is a phenomenon to be impersonally studied, and perhaps judged from an emotional distance. That he should be persuaded to pay lip service to the present German regime cannot be supposed by anyone who knows him. And finally, and this is the point, there is no indication that any sentiments that he may entertain on this subject have affected his scientific work
...demanding that the universities themselves be kept out of politics Mr. Lippmann is only stating a prerequisite for academic freedom, but when he says that the professors must remain aloof oracles, he is hoping for a neutrality and aloofness which can never exist. The centers of learning should still send forth professors to "walk with kings." It is only when an incompetent ruler selects the most miserable of the breed that the universities are dragged down into the mud alongside the government...
...came in the guise of a German baroness of dubious antecedents, uncertain age and still more ambiguous behavior. With her she brought several devoted men-followers. The Baroness soon had them all by the ears. She and Dore hated each other at sight, while Dr. Ritter held philosophically aloof. The Baroness called herself Empress of Floreana, planned to build a hotel and make the island into ''a sort of Miami...