Word: aloofness
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...Roman Catholic faith, a steely will and discipline. The Kennedy women are the choral figures in the family's saga. Their lot has been to bear witness and to endure. Each of them has done so with a grace and resilience peculiarly colored by her own temperament. Rose, the aloof matriarch, has achieved almost mythic indomitability...
Berkeley's Chancellor Roger Heyns disagrees: "We should play an advisory and consultative role, but the university should never be a political action unit. I don't think we should run things." Says Ray Heffner, president of Brown University: "The university must not be aloof from the most pressing problems of our time. And yet the university cannot be so committed to transforming society along definite lines that it loses its function as objective analyst and critic of society...
...Mildred was leaning on the edge of the couch herself. She watched Scott intently. Mirna had an aloof, slightly contemptuous look on her face which she directed at Scott. Scott looked subdued and in pain...
...years in the forefront in the battle against the continual dehumanizing of the Negro, the strongest and warmest friends that rallied to our cause were the Jews. This was so true during the early days, when the "good guys in the big white hats" were standing aloof from those of us (Negroes and Jews) who were fighting this lonely and dangerous battle where the action and the issues were so clear...
...City Hall's architecture is consciously new and vast. The guides say that it is planned to last 500 years. But it is so much separated from the City that it already conveys aging's aloof serenity. The building perceives, reaches out, looks around, withdraws. Its varying orifices capture the different frequencies of light and people in the City. The extending superstructure engulfs and enfolds. The cavernous expanse of the delicate underbelly captures you before you're aware...