Word: aloofness
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...home a parasite." The world of Nuremberg to which he returned with reticence is revealed in a series of woodcuts and engravings from the 15th and 16th centuries. The Germans were untouched by the Renaissance sun that burned in the South; they continued to develop the northern, medieval traditions, aloof to the the revolution that had taken place across the Alps...
...American Red Cross, traditionally aloof from federated charities, changed its policy last April, now gives its blessing to local chapters that decide to join the chests and United Funds. In the 1955 United Fund and» Community Chest drives, nearly 600 Red Cross chapters (out of 3,713 chapters) joined...
Meanwhile, several other Cambridge citizens who have worked on the city's urban renewal project agreed that Harvard "has held itself aloof" from municipal problems. They urged that the University appoint a planning board for its own development and that it consult with the city before planning buildings like Shady Hill or the new hygiene center...
...fine. There has been so much buzzing about this in Democratic Party circles that Oregon's Democratic State Chairman Howard Morgan exploded: "Harriman and Tammany money will be routed circuitously to Kefauver to finance bitter primary fights with Stevenson in the hope of hurting both. Harriman will remain aloof from these contests, and the Eastern bosses will try to sweep up the pieces and hand them to Harriman at the convention...
...modern respect for the monarch begins with the long reign of Queen Victoria. Her five daughters were brought up in a court peopled with carefully sifted members of a nobility as rigidly aloof as the sovereign herself, while Europe's courts abounded in eminently eligible princelings. In today's new era of democratized monarchy, the old Queen's great-great-granddaughter Margaret is blessed with no such protection...