Word: aloofness
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...idea of the lengths to which critics would go in trying to explain her enigmatic smile in Leonardo da Vinci's famed portrait, she might have split her sides laughing. For in 450 years the smile has been variously interpreted as sly and tender, coquettish and aloof, cruel and compassionate, seductive and supercilious. At Yale University last week an eminent British physician, visiting professor of the history of medicine, coolly swept aside all such adjectives and offered his own theory: the lady was smiling with "placid satisfaction" because she was pregnant...
...CRIMSON, in its own quiet way, has long deplored the fact that Harvard University chooses to remain aloof and remote from national affairs. The recent newspaper strike in New York City has provided the CRIMSON with an opportunity to make amends for this unfortunate situation...
...Catholic Pat Brown has his debits too: 1) a haphazard administrator during his eight years as state attorney general, he must prove himself in the infinitely tougher job of Governor; 2) a political loner, Brown has stood aloof from the Democratic professionals and made enemies in the process ("There are something like 30,000 Democratic Club workers," says a top California party leader, "and at least half of them are just waiting for Brown to make his first mistake. Then they're going to run wild"); 3) even to control the California delegation as a favorite-son candidate, Brown...
Food sales account for 70 percent of Cronin's gross, liquor the other 30 percent. About 1,120 gallons of beer come out of the tap each week. Cronin tends bar occasionally, and voices wise words for other bartenders: "Remain aloof yet attentive. Listen, but never give advice...
...supporters to Israel to be trained as saboteurs in the North -a charge fabricated out of the fact that Western Nigeria has imported agricultural experts from Israel to advise its farmers. Awolowo countercharged that the Sardauna flogs his prisoners. At receptions the delegates sipped their orange juice, icily aloof from one another. In elevators conversation would suddenly stop if a delegate from another region...