Word: aloofness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that it would build 1100 housing units, 30 per cent of them low income, in Boston and undertake a similar program of housing construction in Cambridge marked a significant change with past attitudes toward community issues. Previously, Harvard--as an institution--had more or less stood aloof from the community; what assistance it gave to Cambridge and Boston came largely as a by product of the research projects of individual faculty members or through the initiative of student social service organizations such as Phillips Brooks House...
...Hitler faculties, so in our universities today we can see efforts of faculty members to remain aloof from it all, while others try to anticipate even the most radical student demands, so as to avoid confrontations. Worse, there are no efforts made to organize effective alternative groups of students. And most of all, many are so intimidated that they cave in even before the students exercise any pressures. It is the continuous worry about what the militant students may do next, the anxious efforts to give them no offense, which saps the universities of their strength so that they become...
Faculty Reaction. Meantime, the universities are trying to save themselves by seeking the key to orderly political processes, procedural safeguards that can turn campus protests away from naked force and toward rational debate. Above all, the obvious need is for long-aloof faculties to lead in reforming their universities. Here and there, professors are finally awakening. Items...
...Pompidou and De Gaulle could hardly differ more in taste, temperament and approach to life. De Gaulle believed in the imperious exercise of power; Pompidou has promised to serve the nation as an "arbiter." De Gaulle spoke 19th century French and believed in the magic of being mysterious and aloof. Pompidou mingles easily with jet-setters and peasants alike, a ubiquitous cigarette dangling off-center on his lower lip. De Gaulle liked best the France of the history books. Pompidou lives each day as it comes, reveling in the hurly-burly of politics and high finance, equally at ease...
...foundation's penchant for controversy is abetted by a flock of waggish personalities who are refreshingly aloof from the slick chat of commercial radio. KPFK Disk Jockey Lew Merkelson, an ex-truck driver who runs Los Angeles' most knowledgeable classical-music program, often invites local enthusiasts to come in and play their favorite records on the air. Newscasters at Pacifica stations report only top stories; at KPFK, they take pride in the fact that they never even mentioned Jacqueline Kennedy's wedding...