Word: aloofness
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Wright is considered a brilliant teacher who lectures without notes and cites cases from his own books by page and paragraph number from memory. But students complain that he is aloof and suffers from an irresistible urge to drop the grand legal names of the age. When a student once expressed some confusion about a principle of Federalism, Wright replied: "I had some question about that too until I asked Justice Frankfurter about...
What Berryman, i.e. Severance, does is to hide his emotions behind a powerful intellect (a charge often levelled against Berryman in his poems). Severance is cold and aloof, ever-curious to communicate, a witty though egotistical entertainer. But he is unable to relate to others on a basic human level. Only therapy forces him to confront his emotions. And you watch him turn to rigorous exercises in pedantic self-analysis. The same superiority that sets him off from his fellow patients makes him something of a father figure. When one of his symbolic children threatens to leave treatment, only...
...feel better after Watergate. Instead of an aloof, pompous, well-lubricated computerized robot, we have a human being behind the Oval Office desk. C.R. BARTHOLOMEW Miles City, Mont...
CARNIES (or carnival workers) like to keep their distance from marks (customers, suckers and other non-carnies). One way of remaining aloof is to use an argot that is baffling to outsiders. A sampling of carnie terms...
There are, nonetheless, a few people who claim that is precisely the case, that Nixon, as no other President in history, lived aloof while his men did the dirty work. We knew that Nixon was isolated, but we did not know how much. While we proclaimed the power of John N. Mitchell and H.R. Haldeman, we fell far short of reality. Perhaps Nixon was subjected to a form of presidential management that the outside world never knew and was never allowed to see. Perhaps these singularly antisocial men imposed their own withdrawal syndrome on the Oval Office, letting Nixon sink...