Word: aloofness
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...American volunteers. Malawi, in fact, is one of the few countries where volunteer activities have drawn an offcial reprimand: President Hastings Banda complained in a speech that volunteers were trying too hard to live like the people, when as teachers their job was to take a more professional, more aloof attitude. Instead, here were Americans living in huts, dressing sloppily, sleeping with local girls, and, worst of all, getting mixed up in local politics...
Beaten by Indira in last year's race for Prime Minister, a badly miffed Desai remained aloof from her administration. He now stands as an alternative to her policies, since he would undoubtedly crack down on violence, actively encourage foreign investment, and cut back on government controls of business. Other possibilities for Prime Minister: Y. B. Chavan, 53, the able Home Minister, and D. P. Mishra, 65, chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, who led the party to a big victory in his state...
...Aristocrat on French horn: The class of the brass, he is refined and erudite, is one of the highest-paid members of the orchestra and acts like it. Unlike the other brass players, he has never known the camaraderie of playing in dance bands, and tends to stand aloof. He is adept at organizing strikes and protest movements...
...else. When he was angry, everyone in the White House knew it. When he was charming, the birds would plummet from the trees. When he was rude or boorish, hardly anyone could be ruder or more boorish. And so, in recent weeks, after Johnson decided to be remote and aloof, it is not surprising that he has been more remote and aloof than just about any other President since Calvin Coolidge...
...Mantegna. Sachs loved the graphics of Edgar Degas (he owned 21), and one of the best is the 12-in. by 9-in. brush drawing A Young Woman in Street Costume. Despite its smallness, the purity of the girl's soft profile gives it the monumentality of proud, aloof youth. His Picasso study of a mother and child, making a contrapposto of shoulders and hands, is superlative enough to make the Blue Period of 1904 seem a perfect neighbor to Mantegna's 15th century touch. For Sachs, it was the exquisite image in itself; nothing else mattered...