Word: aloofness
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...place"--where he has become firmly rooted year-round with his wife, son, and two daughters. But Mendelsohn has had to be always wary of academic inertia. "The University, at times, likes to fool itself," he says wryly. "It seemed so peculiar to watch the University trying to be aloof from the war and hearing ROTC marching around down by the Divinity School...
...Force General Gustavo Leigh Guzmán, 53, is the junta's ideologue and, after Pinochet, its most imposing member. He has demanded a permanent role for the armed forces in Chilean life despite the fact that the armed forces had remained aloof from politics for 41 years. He seems to envision Chile evolving into a quasifascist corporate state...
Lesley opts to stand aloof, strong and uninvolved, thus losing any chance for authenticity. As Nicky explains to her at the end, "The meek may not inherit the earth but they'll certainly be the first to understand it." To live in the world may mean an obeisance before pain and confusion, but it is the only route to knowledge. A simple, even obvious truth, perhaps, but as this remarkable novel suggests, one which is often unrecognized...
...Perry Mason is, of course, defeated by the memory of Raymond Burr--by his forceful presentation, by his impressive physical presence, the slightly aloof wit he could direct toward Burger and Tragg, the consistency of his presentation. Monte Markham tries to badger witnesses in the Mason style. He tries to intimidate Hamilton Burger. But when a witness cracks, or when Burger allows Mason a point, Mason seems to have won only by edict of the script. Monte Markham doesn't win his cases; they're granted him by CBS decree...
...leap forward was taken last July, when the Vatican was formally represented at the Helsinki conference on security and cooperation in Europe -the first international assembly in which the Vatican was an active participant, and not just an observer, since the Congress of Vienna in 1815. China has remained aloof. Despite a number of goodwill gestures by the Pope, the Chinese have shown little interest in dealing with the Vatican. How to establish such relations will clearly be one of the subjects on the agenda of the Alban Hills meeting...