Word: aloofness
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...father, Hjalmar, Sweden's Prime Minister from 1914 to 1917, was one of his nation's most hated men. Vilified by socialists and liberals, accused of being pro-German, nicknamed "Hungerskjöld" during Sweden's food shortage, Hjalmar left office a bitter man, aloof, isolated, cold...
Throughout the congressional recess and his own convalescence, Lyndon Johnson remained serenely aloof from partisan politics. When he returned to the ring last week, the President showed that he had lost none of his old élan for upstaging the opposition. Waiting until only a few hours before the G.O.P.'s Ev Dirksen and Gerry Ford were to take to TV with their "little State of the Union" message, Johnson summoned the White House press to witness a series of top-of-the-bill turns deftly calculated to steal front-page space from the Republicans...
...parents. The mother-either domineering and contemptuous of the father, or feeling rejected by him-makes her son a substitute for her husband, with a close-binding, overprotective relationship. Thus, she unconsciously demasculinizes him. If at the same time the father is weakly submissive to his wife or aloof and unconsciously competitive with his son, he reinforces the process. To attain normal sexual development, according to current psychoanalytic theory, a boy should be able to identify with his father's masculine role...
...like in the future, and to train people for service in them now." A school of education, he believes, must seek a balance between "the wisdom gained from detachment and that from commitment." The search for the proper mix between necessary involvement in social reform and a more aloof and thoughtful attitude toward education is nothing new, in Sizer's view, but the challenge for Harvard is that "no institution has so far achieved...
...only did he have to create a simultaneity of tone and narrative in which the many active threads, biographical themes, and local vignettes would be balanced but evocative; he also had to discipline himself to a new kind of detachment--not merely because it was his duty to remain aloof from the questions and emotions raised by the tale he had appointed himself teller of, but because he had become dangerously intimate with the lives involved...