Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cops or just rage had messed up their older brothers or sisters or friends. But the Strike and the general revolt against rules of the late '60s have, ten years later, left a conspicuous legacy: increased personal freedom, skepticism about the University's idea that it can stand aloof from the world it studies, and a strong concern among students about the consequences of their personal decisions for themselves and for a society with contracting horizons...
Campus activism has become something of an institution. But kids these days stand too aloof to be galvanized behind any institution that won't take care of them in turn. The sense of community remembered by almost all who were involved in the turmoil of the Sixties won't be revived in the near future...
...were both anxious about Schlesinger's inflexibility and told the President so. Nonetheless, Schlesinger held to his bargaining position that the Mexican price would be unfair to U.S. and Canadian producers. That view was disputed by many, but the chief criticism of Schlesinger was that his approach was aloof and arrogant...
Most of the bruising will probably be inflicted on Admiral Turner, who has been a controversial figure ever since Jimmy Carter appointed him CIA director nearly two years ago. Within the agency, many officials complain that Turner is autocratic and aloof. He has a reputation for relying heavily on "gadgets," such as sky satellites and computerized interception of overseas communications. As evidence, Turner's critics cite his decision in 1977 to cut about 800 employees from the CIA's clandestine Directorate of Operations. All but 10% of the reduction was in the department's staff...
...absence, arises, presumably, from the slow view camera's inability to photograph near or unposed figures without messily slurring them, and from Meyerowitz's inclination to see people as shapes, colors and surfaces, rather than as personalities. The few posed portraits in both shows are notable for a peculiarly aloof and gentle psychological numbness...