Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secret of Success. The torch which had set the fire was Harold Stassen's own relentless campaigning. In the last month before the election, while Dewey and MacArthur remained aloof in their own headquarters, Stassen had raced back & forth across Wisconsin, making at least 35 major speeches, holding countless cracker-barrel discussions at every Wisconsin crossroads...
...Form & the Spirit. Most of last week Benes remained aloof. Since war's end his country's foreign policy has been made in Moscow, but the republic has maintained the forms, and most of the freedoms, of a parliamentary democracy -even with a Red Premier. The Communists got only the 38% voice in government their 38% of the vote allotted them. But at week's end the non-Communist cabinet ministers, having failed to budge Nosek with their boycott, had laid the crisis in Benes' lap by resigning their posts...
...Mexico, John Philip Wernette had two strikes .against him from the start : he was an Easterner and a Harvard professor. As soon as he took over the presidency of the University of New Mexico, it was obvious that he would not fit in. An aloof man with a Dewey mustache, a high recommendation from Harvard's President Conant, and a belief that all he was asked to do was to run a good university, he declined invitations to speak at Rotary clubs, could not bring himself to gladhand state politicos. He angered the faculty by polling the students...
...Columbia and Universal-International seemed as aloof as ever. The smaller, independent producers were willing to cooperate with television, but in general didn't have much to offer. And most of the big stars were still barred from television by clauses in their contracts...
...Britons Are Europeans." M.P.s knew, as did almost every Briton by this week, that their Ernie had indeed made or confirmed a historic change. A main tradition of British foreign policy had been to stand aloof from Europe, and to use Britain's weight to keep two opposing continental groups in a balance where British power could tip the scales. Bevin still believed that "no one nation should dominate Europe." But he added: "The old-fashioned conception of the balance of power should be discarded...