Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Battle of the Streets" to become even grimmer than it is at present: total war between zip-gun toters and club-swinging police, with the innocent citizen in the middle of it all. The man in blue should not just be a faceless, gun-slinging symbol of an aloof society; antagonism can only beget hate and make the accomplishment of police duties that much more difficult...
...early days used powdered chalk and fresh-cut beet juice for beauty, but the onset of the Victorian age made "paint and powder" the hallmark of the dance-hall girl or the woman of the street. The Gibson girl, created by Artist Charles Dana Gibson, was the modest and aloof dream girl of U.S. males in the early years of the century. It was not until World War I that makeup crawled back to respectability, and not until the Roaring Twenties that it dared to flaunt its painted face-under a permanent wave, invented in Switzerland by Charles Nessler. This...
...know as much about my child's needs as you do; I have a right to supervise the education you are giving him." The school no longer holds for the parent the respect that it did in the last century, and the school can no longer afford to keep aloof from the community...
...sociological revolution in U.S. interfaith relations that was described last fortnight by Jesuit Theologian Gustave A. Weigel (TIME, June 2). From the time it was founded 66 years ago until the end of World War II, St. Bernard's Benedictines and their Catholic students maintained an aloof hostility to the Baptists and Lutherans of nearby Cullman, Ala. (pop. 12,000). Occasionally, there was even violence; at one gown-town brawl a priest was bopped by a bottle. But after the war, two things happened: the G.I. Bill enabled more local boys to go to college than ever before...
...Aloof from all such confusion was the man behind the week's news, General de Gaulle. Without a word being touched, the conservative Paris daily L'Aurore cried in boldface headlines: LET THE ELYSEE PALACE DESIGNATE DE GAULLE, and the Communist daily L'Humanité ran a frontpage cartoon of De Gaulle holding the dead body of Marianne, symbol of the French nation, with the appeal: "Bar the Route Against Military Dictatorship." Explained one censor: "De Gaulle's name is too much of a national symbol to tamper with." Translated from the French, that seemed...