Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today, the 2,500,000 Chinese who make up 3% of Indonesia's population are a prosperous minority, irksome to Indonesia's nationalists and as politically aloof as ever. In the euphoric aftermath of the 1955 Bandung Conference, Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai negotiated with Indonesia a curious treaty giving the Chinese settlers the option of either citizenship; but, in fact, nearly 75% retain Red China passports. Last year President Sukarno closed down Nationalist Chinese schools and shops-to Peking's delight. But last May, Sukarno made it plain that all Chinese were eventually...
...large, the Russians received a warm welcome in Cambridge, their first real stop in their month-long tour of the Northeastern United States (they landed in New York the day before they arrived in Cambridge), a much warmer welcome than many people thought this generally aloof community would give...
Last week the party came apart. Accusing the left-wingers of being "proCommunist and anti-American while pretending to be neutralist," Right-Wing Leader Sue-hiro Nishio took 30 Socialist Diet members with him and set up a new "Democratic Socialist Party." Nishio is a coldly aloof onetime foundry foreman who organized one of Japan's first labor unions. He made it clear that his new party would have no time for "the proletarian revolution" and class war, would attempt to offer Japan's growing middle class as well as its laborers a non-Marxist alternative...
...cries out in fear of the whiteness of the window in the early twilight. But, even though the color is muted in these scenes, it protrudes everywhere; and the directing seems to feel obligated to follow the color--to feel obligated to keep everything clean and bright, to remain aloof, to treat the pathos as though it were an awkward intrusion which must be made the best...
...Harvard are now academically free, but let us not be too aloof lest we forget that the social forces of this nation are quite capable of destroying such freedom; and that, perhaps, is only the most short-sighted of concerns. --Robert M. Bohlig...