Word: aloofness
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...them could be for Harvard to come together with its fellow citizens to discover how an expanding Harvard campus and an urban neighborhood can live side-by-side in harmony and to their mutual benefit. But before any of this can happen, Harvard must turn from its aloof stance and willingly join its fellow stakeholders in honest and open discussions about the goals and challenges posed by this expansion...
Those watery tales have now grown into full-blown clichés. Obama is aloof, self-possessed, cool under fire; McCain is passionate, impetuous, hot under the collar. Each one makes a virtue of his temperament as the right setting for the current climate. Americans, McCain says, "expect me to get angry, and I will get angry, because I won't stand for corruption." His impulsive intervention in the bailout negotiations suited his narrative as an action hero: Suspend the campaign! Postpone the debates! His message is practical, real world, get it done; someone around here has to know when...
...heroes go, Don Bradman has proved more durable than most. Playing before the television era helped, as did the quiet way he lived out his latter years. Nonetheless, cricket fans who've read widely are aware that Bradman had his flaws. He was aloof, a little selfish, perhaps, and parsimonious. Not for him drinks with the boys and colorful chat. Australia's greatest sportsman was an introvert who preferred reading and sipping tea to making friends...
...voters think about vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, at least according to Bill Clinton.And while Clinton praises Palin as an excellent choice because of her pregnant daughter and son with Down syndrome, Barack Obama’s amazing rhetoric and Harvard education have made him seem “aloof.” He’s an elitist whose Ivy-League background and experience in an Indonesian school need to be counterbalanced by his often-repeated “only in America” biography. There is something troubling in the continued emphasis on our candidates being ordinary...
Ayckbourn, whose father played violin for the London Symphony Orchestra and whose mother wrote novels, was influenced in his early years less by theater than by the triple bills of American B-movies that he would spend long afternoons watching. Even today he seems aloof from most of his British playwriting peers; he's friends with few of them, and the only dramatist with whom he professes a close affinity (personal and professional) is Harold Pinter, who directed him in an early production of The Birthday Party. "I got fascinated by his use of dialogue, his use of words...