Word: aloofness
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...NASA was little bothered by such problems. To fulfill President Kennedy's mandate to land men on the moon within the decade, it frequently made space sound like a celestial Grand Prix with one purpose above all others: to beat the Russians. NASA became bloated by success and aloof from normal budgetary restraints. Engineers and jet pilots ruled Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center and NASA became the symbol of an older, less troubled America. While there may have been some minority members toiling in the back rooms, the men out front-the astronauts-have been white, middle class...
Surprisingly, this is the first full-scale biography of Mrs. Kennedy, who is 80. In searching for the source of Rose Kennedy's strength, Gail Cameron, a former LIFE reporter, was somewhat handicapped because the subject always remains aloof on grounds that she is preparing her own autobiography. Accordingly, the author sometimes has had to fall back on familiar anecdotes and cinematic clichés like "amazing," and "extraordinary." Still, she offers much previously unpublished material, and the book exposes as adulative blather most previous exploitations of the Kennedy women. The absorbing personage presented comes on as half pluperfect...
...subtle unseen power struggles which determine the fate of institutions. The crisis of confidence which students and younger faculty felt after Pusey called in the police in April 1969, is nothing compared to the quite private crisis he suffered more than a dozen years ago. If Pusey had been aloof, almost unseen, throughout these years, it is only because he had to be careful of every step, every move, to make sure that he never compromised himself again, never left himself open for the withering criticism which he once received, never antagonized people enough to demand his resignation publicly this...
Georgia's landscape, like its people, is varied. To the south lies the coastal plain. There Savannah, one of the South's busiest seaports, holds itself proud and aloof from the hinterlands...
...individual, Sloan's hero is a quietly brash, intellectually aloof fighter compulsively plotting the means to exploit the corruption and stupidity of the "midgets" he has been deployed to defend. For him, the war is no more than a hastily-built bureaucratic contraption within which the warrior must eke out a petty and sadistic existence profiteering promotions, medals, and love-making. Wry but bitter, Sloan's hero constantly visits the base's dentist while worrying about continual gonorrhea, and enjoys pissing into the flak around his helicopter gunship. Amid the war's psychic viciousness the hero maintains his uneasy sanity...