Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Teachers cannot build a new social order, as some people would have them do. On the other hand, teachers cannot remain aloof from current realities if their teaching is to be at all vital and significant. Teachers ought to teach what they believe to be the truth on all questions where the community as represented by the School Board has not expressly forbidden them to teach. Teachers can be much more aggressive in teaching the truth on all matters about which the community has not crystallized an opinion than they commonly...
...exploded in a mild steam: "Why, General Pender! That is the way you young men always do. You allow these people to get away. I tell you what to do, but you don't do it!" Author Freeman's half-length portrait shows a kindly but aloof gentleman, a believe-it-or-not Christian Soldier. But some of the soldiers he commanded were more human if less humane. One Confederate private, rummaging the battleground during a truce after Fredericksburg, was reprimanded by a Federal officer for salvaging a rifle; the officer said that was against the rules. Said...
Author Russell, who has always held aloof from the political arena, takes a longer, more objective view of the argument than either Secretary Wallace or Mr. Hoover. A radical, he is also a scientist and a philosopher. To get a proper perspective of the debate between freedom and organization, he goes back 100 years, writes a history of political change from 1814 to 1914. No believer in "scientific" history, or in the Carlylean doctrine of heroes either, he has made his book a judicious blend of historical analysis and biography. His lucid irony does not prevent him from stating many...
...create a new Textile Labor Relations Board, superseding both his own Winant Board and the National Labor Relations Board, President Roosevelt last week simply extended the sway of his Steel Labor Relations Board, created last summer when a steel strike threatened (TIME, July 9). Its members: 1) aloof, judicial Walter P. Stacy, who expected after a fortnight as temporary chairman to return to his job as Chief Justice of North Carolina's Supreme Court; 2) grim, grizzled Rear Admiral Henry A. Wiley, U. S. N., retired, ardent Big Navy man, arbitrator of two railway labor disputes; 3) liberal James...
Last week Henri, Jean Ill's hitherto un obtrusive Dauphin, showed unexpectedly the stuff of which practical politicians are made. Dropping the aloof dignity which is the badge of most legitimate pretenders, France's Henri, who is barred by law from his native land, rose up in Genoa to make what amounted to a fiery campaign speech. Down from Paris to hear him had gone hundreds of Camelots du Roi ("King's Henchmen"), the pick of French aristocracy. No sluggards, they do such chores in Paris as distributing the Royalist news paper, L' Action Fran...