Word: aloofness
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...Teamsters Union, which represents about 450,000 long-haul drivers, including independents and those employed by trucking firms, has stood aloof from the strike, and President Frank Fitzsimmons has cautioned against "taking matters into your own hands." To impose their will, the more militant independents have been terrorizing drivers who continue to work and refuse to join in the strike...
...portents of disaster -or rather above them, which is part of the problem -stands the Nobel Peace prizewinner, usually silent, often indecisive. His personality has always been elusive, and associates say that it is becoming more so. He wants to be liked, and so he avoids personal confrontation.He remains aloof from battles or postpones dealing with them until they balloon out of all proportion to their basic importance. To those around him, he increasingly gives the impression of a man who is tired and bored, as if the frustrations of domestic politics are too much to bear after the heady...
Amidst this internecine turmoil, Peron remains aloof and caught in a dilemma: he cannot restore law and order in Argentina while his own movement is riven with internal strife. If he tries, he puts himself in the position of fighting his own supporters...
Only a fraction of the energy that went into the study of abstract expressionism has been spent on Mondrian's small circle of U.S. disciples, such as Fritz Glarner, Ilya Bolotowsky and Burgoyne Diller. Their aloof and rigorous art could never have been a popular recipe; but allowing for that, and for the fact that they labored beneath the almost overpowering shadow of Mondrian himself, the silence about such pioneers is still remarkable. For though the public did not look closely or often at their work, later artists did; the "mondrianists" were one of the secret influences on 1960s...
THIS IS AN ISSUE which Kilson and older blacks have failed to confront. The black elitist has always positioned himself as far away from the remainder of the black community as he possibly could. Acculturation accomodated this lifestyle quite well. Younger blacks have realized that the aloof professional is of no service to the community. Black students' commitments have been reaffirmed as blacks have penetrated racist blockades by collective effort held together by cultural solidarity. The elite that Kilson envisions is an aloof group that does not fit contemporary needs and therefore offers no attraction for students...