Word: aloofness
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...those who consider themselves literary scholars and critics would focus on the whole literary work and give perspective to students, then the world's literary masterpieces could again perform their unique function, speaking to all men at all times about man's condition. There is nothing "aloof" about Sophocles' Oedipus, and Dante, despite his terza rima, was in there dealing with the nitty-gritty of his day. It's time our scholars met the challenge of a technology that can view the whole earth from the eye of a satellite...
...current hunger for a presidential hero, an exciting idealist (or at least simplifier), who could strip down the era's complexities and articulate a national vision. What frustrated voters may overlook is the fact that great Presidents have generally been more pragmatic than idealistic. Lincoln stayed aloof from the moral absolutes of the abolitionists-and he, not they, abolished slavery. In this sense, an undecided voter might well focus on the candidate who seems most capable of putting together a viable political coalition, working with Congress, mobilizing interest groups and making the country move...
...point, however, is to change it." That, in essence, is the purposeful goal of higher education put forward by a new self-study report of the emphatically non-Marxist University of Oklahoma. Published this month, the document argues that it is time for universities to abandon the ideal of aloof scholarship that analyzes but never commits to action, that describes but never defines moral values. The true goal of the university is to become "passionately involved in questions of spiritual and moral values in the real world...
Thomas Hoving, director of the Metropolitan Musuem in New York, has been making a big splash recently with his call for greater involvement of the public in the affairs of the art world. People at Harvard often talk of breaking down the barriers which have traditionally kept the University aloof from the life of the people of Cambridge. One must be careful, however, that in the process one does not dilute what Curator Bond has called "the raw material" of scholarship. One must be careful in building up a new community...
...outset of his campaign for the presidency, Richard Nixon adopted an aloof, efficient style that was designed to fulfill a double objective: he wanted to show himself to the nation as a cool, controlled figure, and he wanted to avoid the sort of major mistake that can lose an election. From New Hampshire through the convention and well into the campaign, the tactic has worked well. There have been no irretrievable blunders. Yet Nixon has made some moves that may prove to be mistakes-or that, at least, his opponents can exploit as mistakes. There is no sign...