Word: aloofness
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...delegates cheered the speeches, the man responsible for keeping N.B.C.U.S.A. aloof from the 1960s demonstrations sat impassively on the platform, ignoring both the rhetoric and the reaction. In September 1982, after a reign of 29 years, the Rev. Joseph H. Jackson had been deposed as president of N.B.C.U.S.A. Jackson's long rule was criticized last week by the man who replaced him in office: the Rev. T.J. (for Theodore Judson) Jemison, 63, who also told the gathering, "We must permit our convention to become program-centered rather than personality-centered. We must be ready to step aside...
...played the austere, ironic butler in Arthur, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1982, and he was Charles Ryder's comically aloof father in TV's Brideshead Revisited. But he was also, to give only a partial list, the anti-Semitic Cambridge don in Chariots of Fire, Lord Irwin in Gandhi, a doge of Venice in NBC's Marco Polo, Albert Speer's father in ABC's Inside the Third Reich, Pope Pius XII in CBS's The Scarlet and the Black, a crooked art dealer in Sphinx...
...Tramp campaign has been so successful that it has created a new image for IBM. The firm has always been seen as efficient and reliable, but it has also been regarded as somewhat cold and aloof. The Tramp, with his ever present red rose, has given IBM a human face...
That promise was by no means broken this year. But for it to be completely fulfilled, the council must next year assert itself more on student issues, practical and political, after careful research. It must also demonstrate humility by keeping in close contact with undergraduates and striking the aloof clauses that let it operate in private. Maybe then the embarrassing, underlying fact will change: this year, as in years past, only about 20 undergraduates deeply cared about a student government that should be of interest...
Moreover, if Derek Bok's image among students is aloof (if not among alumni), Giamatti seems exceptionally accessible to students. No other Ivy League president has office hours for students to come in and chat, and few--other than Giamatti--respond to student-written luncheon invitations...