Word: aloofness
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Hero Rick Blaine (Bogart) is an aloof Casablanca cafe proprietor, an idealization of the self-willed outcast, who is sometimes pressed into exerting an ordering influence on his hopelessly muddled environment. A former freedom fighter in Spain and Ethiopia, for some reason unable to return to his native United States, Blaine has become wary of involvement--"I stick my neck out for nobody"--and is resigned to die in Casablanca - "It's a good place...
Seedy & Scientific. Good reporter that she is, Dame Rebecca has poked into every nook and cranny of her traitors' lives, dug up all the dirt on them and buried them in it. This disposes of them, but does it explain them? Aloof, detached, reproving, very much the grande dame at 72, Dame Rebecca is convinced that the traitors were all perfectly rational people, always knowing right from wrong and exactly where they were going. She writes of Lord Haw-Haw: "He should have recognized that the words he had been saying since 1927 were. 'Evil, be thou...
...ancient country of the Afghans. The land of the high barriers is what it seemed to U.S. Schoolteacher Rosanne Klass in 1951, when she settled in the capital of Kabul. The barriers were purdah, which segregated man from woman, and the crypto-snobbery that kept the foreign colony aloof from the Afghan people. They were barriers, it would seem, that would last as long as the Koran and Kipling, except that Miss Klass did not come all the way from Cedar Rapids to be barred by them...
...Communications Satellite Corp. went on the market six months ago at $20 a share, demand for it was so great that brokers rationed it to 50 shares or less per customer and only the favored few got their piece of space. But professional Wall Streeters generally stood aloof, willing to sell it but not so willing to buy. Comsat might become the bluest of space-age blue chips, they said, but that was many profitless years away...
...kind of anticolonialism on the part of locals that want to play a bigger role, partly by the political and technological challenges - such as automation - that have created a climate of discontent in U.S. unions. To many in the rank and file, labor's aristocracy seems old, aloof, often tyrannical, and too busy discoursing on foreign policy or participating in university colloquia to keep in touch with grass-roots concerns. Some annoying habits of union leaders that are ignored so long as they deliver-frequent travel, conspicuously high living-begin to pall when there is less left to deliver...