Word: aloofness
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Light wins a lot of friends in high places by attempting to disprove the stereotype of the aloof, inaccessible professor. The study's student poll shows, surprisingly, that most Harvard undergraduates are satisfied with faculty accessibility...
...Rumors swirled last week that the CBS News chief, who was named to the position in August 1988 after eleven years at ABC, was about to resign. In the corridors of CBS News, Burke was criticized not only for his handling of the Rooney affair but also for his aloof and uncommunicative management style. (Burke, head of one of the nation's leading news organizations, routinely turns down all press interviews.) He is also under pressure to reverse the ratings slide of the CBS Evening News. Yet CBS sources last week discounted reports that Burke's job was in jeopardy...
...passionate conservative in the odd-couple post of writing CBS radio commentary for Dan Rather, she joined the Reagan Administration in 1984 because "I felt like Mr. Roberts -- I was missing the war!" But even as her speechwriting success won her greater entree to Reagan, he remained characteristically aloof and impenetrable. Like a teenager in swoon, Noonan treasured each presidential wink; when Reagan wrote "Very Good" on a speech, Noonan taped the words to her blouse as a badge of honor. Yet when a burned- out Noonan left the White House in 1986, her nemesis, chief of staff Don Regan...
Bhutto's apologists say she is learning, and point to her recent moves to cooperate with the President and back off from confrontation with the opposition. She can also feel secure in her stable relations with the army brass, which has so far stood aloof from the fray. Her ministers say they are working on legislation and feel their efforts to encourage the country's private sector will soon benefit the sagging economy. Then too, Bhutto has helped restore a strong, if incomplete, measure of freedom and democracy to a country that has been under military rule for most...
...weather, at the moon, I look into the cars to deduce their owners, notice whether shop front displays have changed, anticipate the queues for broken escalators to the Victoria Line. Some days, walking home from work, I feel a self-contained elation, holding myself aloof and feeling bold; shouldering past the tourists, facing every new stranger with an inscrutable watchfulness. I'm still too weak though, there are traces of straw-sucking ingenuousness--my eyes sometimes widen in spite of themselves, and let people in. So I'm asked for 50p in the Chinese takeaway, I blush in shops...