Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Business Week conducted polls of graduates and corporate recruiters in order to assess the schools. The magazine reported that Harvard graduates complained of an aloof, seemingly undedicated administration and poor career placement services—HBS finished 14th in graduate satisfaction...
...concert at Avalon, the third show in a month long tour of the US, the three singers adopted different onstage roles: Ben Ottewell, center stage, was tall and aloof, eye-closed-crooning and occasionally howling into the microphone; Ball was a wiry dynamo, leaning into his mic and moshing at every opportunity. Gray often had little to do until the signature screwball breaks in the songs and consequently acted as a cheerleader for the crowd, exhorting them to greater feats of whooping and bouncing. As he came forward to sing “Sound of Sounds...
Last Tuesday’s speech on anti-Semitism and Sunday night’s showing of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off may seem to have nothing to do with one another, but both contrast favorably with the distant and aloof tenure of Summers’ predecessor, Neil L. Rudenstine. As president of Harvard, Rudenstine was well-known for increasing the university’s endowment. That’s it. His presence at the freshman barbecue in the fall of 2000 served only to highlight his complete absence from campus life throughout the rest of that year...
...into extra innings in baseball labor negotiations, the nation turned its lonely eyes to the sport's commissioner, and found - well, very little. Selig was conspicuous in his absence from talks as a strike threatened, and even when he did arrive, two days before the strike deadline, he remained aloof. And so, as the man who very nearly became the only baseball commish to preside over two work stoppages, Bud Selig is our Person of the Week...
...them - although more in keeping with the sentiments on the Palestinian street - he sees "armed struggle," at least in the West Bank and Gaza, as a valid and effective means of pursuing that goal. Imprisoning Barghouti may be the equivalent of a political favor, because incarceration would keep him aloof from the messy politics of compromise and negotiation in the months and even years ahead. (Indeed, an imprisoned Barghouti may represent more of a headache for Arafat than for the Israelis - already there have been reports from Ramallah of Palestinian police being sent out by Arafat aides to tear down...