Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard has not always been so aloof to the cause of the patriots. Like those of Massachusetts, Harvard's ties to England were stretched thin in the 1770s and by 1775 had snapped. Samuel Eliot Morison '08 recounts in his seminal 1936 work Three Centuries of Harvard how "on April 19... six scholars marched off with the Minutemen" and in a footnote proudly points to the fact that only 16 percent of Harvard graduates were on the rebels' list of Tory sympathizers. The campus itself--which according to President and member of the Class of 1790 Josiah Quincy's bicentennial...
...path to this unique position of power had not been easy. The only daughter of an alcoholic father and a beautiful but aloof mother who was openly disappointed by Eleanor's lack of a pretty face, Eleanor was plagued by insecurity and shyness. An early marriage to her handsome fifth cousin once removed, Franklin Roosevelt, increased her insecurity and took away her one source of confidence: her work in a New York City settlement house. "For 10 years, I was always just getting over having a baby or about to have another one," she later lamented, "so my occupations were...
...reason an aspiring professor in the humanities may have difficulty convincing her parents that she doesn't want to be a doctor or a lawyer is that the job market in fields such as philosophy, English and Classics is tight and these disciplines are often viewed as aloof from the rest of society...
Oddly enough, each of the seven segments of the dance developed a strong sexual charge, though the dancers' emotional intensity remained at a cool, aloof low. In Segment III in particular, Larissa Ponomarenko and Paul Thrussel entwined themselves over and over again in matching navy velvet outfits. Even the audience's pulse ran quickly, but like the lighting and the mood of the sub-ambient music, a strong emotional detachment pervaded this particular ballet...
There's nothing new about tensions between federal prosecutors and locals, especially the ones who are targets of the prosecution. It is after all part of the purpose of U.S. Attorneys to remain aloof from the natives' habits of mutual back scratching and looking the other way. So at least some of the talk around Little Rock against Starr sounds like sour grapes from a hometown nexus of business, law and government that likes to keep its dealings, including the dubious ones, within the family. Yet there are still some valid questions about prosecutorial overreach...