Word: aloofness
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...Aloof. Of perennial concern to many Congressmen is the apparent refusal of the Army and Navy to cooperate...
...more like two plays-and two very unequal ones. When it seizes its theme and blows across the blackened grass of the age, The Searching Wind is bracing and sharp-a drama of adult talk and challenging ideas. But the theme both hampers the plot and holds aloof from it. The love story lacks fullness. The women lack freedom. They live only in hurried, gasping moments of crisis-and in an atmosphere too often dominated by proclamations, rioting and the boom of guns...
...editorial Editor Labarthe, who now holds aloof from any French faction, wrote of resistance inside France: "We know that strong roots nourished by blood are growing, some day to break through to the light. . . . Four years of silence . . . have unconsciously changed people's approach to almost every problem." Added he, in a passage obviously aimed at Charles de Gaulle, among others: ". . . Men who have gone through the fire of defeat will feel differently from those who have escaped. . . . The men inside Europe will not show enthusiasm when those who lived in foreign lands try to judge and direct internal...
...Technocracy. The dates and facts of Veblen's life will not be found in Duffus' graceful, charming, nostalgic memoir. A farm boy from a Norwegian settlement in Minnesota, Veblen had the habit of looking at the U.S. economic and social systems as though he were an aloof and coldly calculating anthropologist from another culture. He wrote sardonic books about the workings of the U.S. economy in a style that seems "desperately accurate" to some, a sort of elephantine, academic pig Latin to others...
...year later Hitler came to power with Junker help, made able War Planner von Manstein a lieutenant general. Yet Manstein remained aloof from Nazi politics. After all, Nazis too were rabble...