Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years in the forefront in the battle against the continual dehumanizing of the Negro, the strongest and warmest friends that rallied to our cause were the Jews. This was so true during the early days, when the "good guys in the big white hats" were standing aloof from those of us (Negroes and Jews) who were fighting this lonely and dangerous battle where the action and the issues were so clear...
...City Hall's architecture is consciously new and vast. The guides say that it is planned to last 500 years. But it is so much separated from the City that it already conveys aging's aloof serenity. The building perceives, reaches out, looks around, withdraws. Its varying orifices capture the different frequencies of light and people in the City. The extending superstructure engulfs and enfolds. The cavernous expanse of the delicate underbelly captures you before you're aware...
...ashore at Normandy in 1944, the French Resistance there cut all telephone lines to Paris in an attempt to hamstring the Wehrmacht's response. The Germans, however, failed to realize that the lines had been put out of action, so the story goes, for Paris has always been aloof from the rest of France. For cen turies, the capital has been the nation's center of culture, business and politics...
...remaining aloof from the passions and wars of other Arab lands, Lebanon, alone of Israel's neighbors, has escaped losing territory to Israel. It has pursued the role of a Middle Eastern Switzerland, providing its 2,700,000 people with the highest living standard of any Arab country. Beirut is a cosmopolitan city of thriving banks and glittering beaches, excellent restaurants and gaudy nightclubs. Internally, Lebanon has maintained a delicate equilibrium since it gained independence from French mandate rule in 1943, by an unwritten "national covenant" apportioning political power between the Christian and Moslem halves of its population...
According to his original confessions, Nat Turner was aloof, but it is clear that he was not removed from, and contemptuous of, his fellows. Indeed, had he in truth been as contemptuous of blacks as Styron portrays, he would hardly have been called on to plan or partake in the theft raids they conducted. Furthermore, he would have been distrusted, disliked, and excluded. In fact, his childhood and youth would have been as desperately lonely, unhappy, and soul-twisting as was that of Styron's creation...