Word: aloofness
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...John Tenniel, and expanded and rewritten, the first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland reached Alice exactly three years later. It was an immediate hit. and with its sequel, Through the Looking Glass, earned Carroll an affluence he did not want and the fame he detested. An aloof, high-strung eccentric, he insisted for the rest of his life that there was no connection between Lewis Carroll and Charles Dodgson, whose erudite treatises on mathematics and logic* were forgotten almost as quickly as his rules for Circular Billiards and the Dodgson Nyctograph, an invention for taking notes...
...friend before the con vention: "I just can't go out and shake Lodge, people's and hands I'd and like say your 'I'm vote.' It John Davis would be insulting to them. They know who I am." Far from aloof was Horace Seely-Brown Jr., 54, a hulking, aggressive six-term Congressman from Connecticut's agricultural eastern Second District. Seely-Brown, who runs a 100-acre apple farm in Pomfret, likes meeting people. He covered 3,000 miles in the state, pleaded persuasively for delegate votes...
Died. Victoria Mary Sackville-West, 70, genteel English authoress, a lanky noblewoman whose needlepoint prose and aloof mien made her a leading light in the Bloomsbury Group of Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes and Virginia Woolf (who portrayed her as the fantastic heroine of Orlando) and who herself, though home-educated in her family's 365-room castle, penned a tapestry of 33 books, from biographies (Daughter of France) to novels (No Signposts in the Sea) and a history of nursery rhymes; in Sissinghurst Castle, Kent, England...
...being thrown into increasingly intimate contact with Europe's managerial class-and are finding it a different breed. European industry, reports University of Wisconsin Professor David Granick. is run by a species of businessman almost extinct in the U.S.-men bound by strict traditions of social class, aloof toward subordinates, and profoundly skeptical of the U.S. notion that corporate management is a separate branch of knowledge that can be learned in business school...
Died. Elzey Roberts Sr., 70, former publisher of the folksy, feisty St. Louis Star-Times, an aloof office tyro who inherited the Star a year after graduating from Princeton in 1915, bought the Times in 1932, and, after battling Joseph Pulitzer's bigger Post-Dispatch for three decades, unpredictably sold out to Pulitzer in 1951; of a heart ailment; in St. Louis...