Word: aloofness
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...Marcos also remained silent. But a veiled reference to the clash of Communism and democracy in Southeast Asia showed the direction of his own commitment: "We cannot merely contemplate the risks of our century without coming to any decision. Wherever there is a fight for freedom, we cannot remain aloof...
Charles de Gaulle has always been aloof with journalists, and never with better reason than at the close of 1965. It was, after all, the press that had responded with the greatest glee at his humiliation by the voters during last month's election. As a result hardly anyone expected his annual New Year's Eve reception for newsmen to be much of a brandy warmer. It wasn...
...casts his figures directly from human models. Now at New York's Sidney Janis Gallery, his Costume Party differs from his previous work in its tinted surface. Two reclining silver figures masquerade as Antony (with Roman helmet and G.I. gunbelt) and Cleopatra (with painted Egyptian necklace). In aloof stances around them are a lumpy, black, helmeted "Pussy Galore-type," a red, catlike woman with a yellow-feathered mask, and a green-robed priest. They posture like demented inmates in a psychosexual drama, dancers in a group-therapy ballet...
...game and seems not to care whether she sleeps in the railway waiting room or in the Hotel de Paris. Claude, the son of the watchmaker, is impressed with the falseness of the luxury that existed before in movies and dreams. Yet he, too, outside the casino, is aloof from his surroundings: he might as well be back in Cannes' slums...
...Sorensen, nothing is more unfair than the judgment-most often passed by "professional liberals"-that Kennedy was basically shallow, aloof and uncommitted. "Some mistook his humor, gaiety and gentle urbanity for a lack of depth, and some mistook his cool calculation of the reasonable for a lack of commitment," writes Sorensen. "But his wit was merely an ornament to the earnest expressions that followed, and his reason reinforced his deep convictions and ideals...