Word: aloofness
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...question it would be most fruitful for Americans to argue is what the U.S. reaction to Khrushchev's death should be. Should the message of condolences be warm or formal? Much more important, should we adopt an activist policy of profiting from the Soviet disadvantage or stay aloof from the entire affair...
...former Ambassador to India said that India's neutrality was the fulcrum of her foreign policy. By remaining in the strong position of aloof neutrality, India could pit her weight with any side in world bargaining...
Natalie comes from a nice Italian family. In fact, one gets the feeling that she'd hardy so much as kissed a fellow goodnight prior to her pushes in the bushes with Steve. So, remaining rather mutually aloof, they plan an abortion. Grubby business...
...ticket as vice-presidential nominee would seem to fit Lodge nicely into the role of compromise candidate. To effect a real compromise between the so-called extreme "liberalism" of Rockefeller and the extreme "conservatism" of Goldwater is almost indispensable for a Republican victory. Can Lodge, who has been aloof from most ideological haggles since 1960, best accomplish this binding? Or is real unification an unobtainable fiction...
...education. Runty 19-year-old Angelo has an idiot sister, a slatternly mother, a dreary job as a druggist's assistant, and no hopes. He is intelligent, and he stakes everything on reason. Runty, it seems, can stand the whole crummy mess so long as he can remain aloof from the environment he despises and, ultimately, from himself...