Word: aloofness
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Among the three main Democratic candidates, the front runner is Robert Krueger, who came within 12,000 votes of defeating Tower in 1978. His style is aloof and intellectual: a Shakespearean scholar with a doctoral degree from Oxford, Krueger was once a dean at Duke University. Conservative Congressman Kent Hance, with his good-ole-boy demeanor, plays up the contrast between the elegant Krueger and him self. "I'm a Texan," he drawls. "I think like a Texan and I'll vote like a Texan." Battling Krueger for the liberal vote is State Senator Lloyd Doggett, a consumer...
...Usually in the case of a dean search the presidents have usually been rather aloof. The President usually enters the process rather late," says vice-president for administration Robert Mattson. "The procedures and process we have in place to reflect the size of the university," he adds...
Students characterized professors as aloof and unapproachable and demanded measures to increase student-faculty contact...
...Pusey was too aloof, he didn't understand the urgency of the situation," says Maier, adding, "Negotiation unfortunately wasn't in his vocabulary...
Hart used to complain about reporters' rote descriptions of him as "cool and aloof." But amid the evening hush, as his 727 headed for Washington, he confessed that he is uneasy with street campaigning. He manages the jolly handshaking and baby kissing. But he is ambivalent, at least, about the surging excitement of the crowds, the yearning he sees in hundreds of anonymous faces every day. "Those people are obviously looking for somebody to believe in, someone they can trust." That palpable emotional investment, Hart says, is awesome, even frightening. No matter who the candidate, he says, the crowds...