Word: aloofness
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Sperry's remarks followed a recent speech by Ernest C. Colwell, president of the University of Chicago, in which universities were called aloof to religion. Colwell said the attitude of college faculties was "one of indifference or carefully controlled neutrality...
...these terms of aloof friendship, Pandit Nehru set out to see the U.S. He got the red-carpet treatment, full of pomp, plush and protocol. It began with a night at Blair House as the guest of President Truman, two state dinners, a trip to Mount Vernon, tea with Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Then came a quiet Sunday visit to Hyde Park to place a wreath on Franklin Roosevelt's grave, a ticker-tape parade through lower Manhattan. At the end of six days he was already beginning to feel overwhelmed. Said Pandit Nehru, smiling: "No one should...
...somber struggle between world freedom and world Communism, Nehru has professed to see only a big power rivalry from which India should stay aloof. In April 1948 he charted a "Third Force" course...
Britain's Reginald Reynolds, a "confirmed serendipitist" (discoverer of unexpected treasures) and the author of a learned, witty study of sewage-disposal problems (Cleanliness and Godliness, TIME, May 6, 1946), is no nostalgic yearner for the boskier days of old. In Beards he stands aloof (and beardless), a lollipop in one cheek and his tongue in the other, and lets the pro-and anti-beard factions fight...
...pilgrims had come from all over the world. Aloof, tight-lipped Bishop Giuseppe López Ortiz of Tuy in western Spain headed a delegation of 35 from the saint's own country. There were Germans, French, Italians, Filipinos, Irish, Canadians and one priest from India. In the U.S. delegation was energetic, ruddy Most Rev. Thomas J. McDonnell, Auxiliary Bishop of New York. The Japanese turned out in crowds that jammed streets, parks and station platforms. Non-Christians sang hymns along with their shinja (believer) brothers. Pious deputations waited at railway stations until late at night to catch...