Word: aloofness
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...Union has come a long way from that December day in 1836 when the seminary first opened its doors to 13 students who wanted, as the preamble to Union's charter put it, "to live free from party strife, and to stand aloof from all the extremes of doctrinal speculation, practical radicalism, and ecclesiastical domination...
...laden that shipping dared not leave harbor, the Times ran the headline, "Continent Cut Off by Fog." But only the fog was unusual; Great Britain has traditionally been cut off from Europe. Since the days of henry VII and Cardinal Wolsey, England has tried to stand aloof from entangling alliances on the Continent and depend on sea power for strength. At the same time, Britain has feared the emergence of a great power in Europe. In line with these dual aims, the English have traditionally regarded themselves as the holders of the balance of power, rather than active participants...
...against it ... Must the Church then move with the stream and side with America and the Vatican, merely because somewhere in the textbooks of its professors-ever since 1934-it has rightly been said that 'totalitarianism' is a dreadful thing? . . . The Church ought to stand quietly aloof from the present conflict and not let off all its guns before it is necessary, but wait calmly to see whether the situation will grow serious again . . ." So last week Karl Barth waited in his comfortable study in Basel, working on his magnum opus in theology, Dogmatics, still unconvinced that Communism...
...held distinguished places as professors and masters and fellows since 1790, Rab quickly set about a political career. He plunged into the debates of the famed Cambridge Union, where a promising young man is duly noted by the powers in Whitehall and ticketed for future office. Nervous, witty and aloof, Rab debated energetically, was elected president at the age of 21. One summer he led a debating team to the U.S., bringing back a report that "we found the earnest, logical Yankees easy to flummox, except for the Vassar girls, who ran circles round us." Once Stanley Baldwin came...
Away went the Monarchists' 39 votes. And Giuseppe Saragat's 19 non-Communist Socialists, though they favored every word and comma of Fanfani's program, stubbornly stood against him, too. The 14 Liberals stayed aloof...