Word: aloofness
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...able to concede his errors and bury his mistakes. It took skill to pick devoted men, to enlist their talents while subduing their ambitions, to reward or discard, flatter or blackmail, soothe or scourge, at the necessary moment. Stalin governed by a cunning balancing of tensions, and was himself aloof and unhurried...
...British Petroleum." The man who bossed the pumps is Anglo-Iranian's chairman, Sir William Fraser, 64, a tough, aloof Scotsman. The son of an oilman, he started out in Scotland's hardscrabble oil-shale business. At 27, when his father died, he took over control of the family company, before long engineered a cooperative marketing deal of all the companies in the ailing industry. This feat so impressed Lord Greenway, head of the British government-controlled Anglo-Iranian (then called Anglo-Persian), that he invited Fraser, at 34, to join his board. Eight years later, as deputy...
...scientists like Margaret Mead and David Riesman present a more balanced view of American society, and several contributors, notably Kronenberger and Sidney Hook turn their fire on the posturings of the intellectuals rather than on the inadequacies of American culture. Kronenberger asks whether "our literary intellectuals are not more aloof than alienated . . . we might wish for a few children who should cry out from time to time: 'But the Emperor has no clothes...
...intimately involved in University policy, Buck manages to keep remarkably aloof from the debates and conflicts of the Faculty, but still some Faculty antagonism has been periodically directed against the unruffled Provost; his critics feel he has power far greater than that of any other Dean, and he, with Conant, dominates the Faculty with absolute finality. But as is his way, Buck never attempts to refute such charges, merely chuckles scoffingly. Once to a group of freshmen, he said: "Harvard would be a more restful place for the denizens of University Hall were there less discord. But eliminate the discord...
...Charles de Gaulle had refused tt> participate in any French government, holding out for a new constitution. Now he agreed to let his office-hungry followers participate in a new cabinet to keep more of them from breaking away, as did some 30 last summer to support Conservative Pinay. Aloof and disdainful, the general stayed away from Paris, while one of his most ambitious lieutenants, a young (40) anthropologist named Jacques Soustelle, accepted the President's invitation to try to form a cabinet. He failed. Next came ex-Premier (1946-50) Georges Bidault of the M.R.P., whose chances seemed...