Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed a little aloof, though I never found him so personally. This, I think, came quite as much from a certain awe of him in his fellow-students because of his wider experience, as from any holding apart...
Shadowy & Aloof. What catapulted Niarchos overnight into the front ranks of 20th century collectors was his purchase for more than $2,500,000 of 58 paintings and one Degas sculpture from the Edward G. Robinsons' collection last spring (the Knoedler show will include 40 of the Robinson paintings). But Niarchos did not attain his standing as a collector solely on the strength of the Hollywood actor's selections. He made his first modest purchase when he picked up Winslow Homer's A Voice from the Cliffs (which now hangs in his Manhattan penthouse office) and a Renoir...
...world. Says one of London's leading dealers, "We all know of Niarchos; one or two of us have seen him now and then. We all agree that he is one of the world's more important collectors. But he's shadowy and aloof in the gallery realm. He remains behind the scenes...
...glory. Inspired by itinerant artists who traveled from Italy to Switzerland, the Rhine basin, France and Spain, the Catalan painters in their early Romanesque works depicted intense, embattled faith, open to the ever-present terror of eternal damnation and filled with awe in the presence of a stiff, remote, aloof...
...revolution into surrender or submission. What I would say to my American friends is this - if you are incensed by what you consider to be some of the more repugnant features of the Chinese or Russian regimes, the best thing to do with those nations is not to stand aloof or send them to Coventry; the best treatment is to bring them into closer relations with the rest of the world and make it easier for them to solve their economic and technical problems...