Word: aloofness
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...poker-face pyrotechnics and the silken refinement of his playing; of causes and in a location not announced by Soviet officials. A prodigy who burst into the international spotlight at age 27 by winning the 1951 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels, Kogan's flawless but aloof technique could on occasion produce bloodless interpretations. A Jew who denied that Moscow was guilty of anti-Semitic discrimination, he publicly criticized dissidents like Andrei Sakharov...
Bernardin has certainly moved with dispatch to ease the problems and stresses left by Cody, who was not only autocratic and aloof but was plagued by personal and financial scandal during the last year of his life. Barely an hour on the job, Bernardin made a luncheon date with a pastor from a struggling black church who had been trying for two years to get permission parishioners Chicago nuns from Mother Teresa's order, the Missionaries of Charity, to work among his parish poor. Bernardin not only gave the venture his enthusiastic endorsement but volunteered to write Mother Teresa...
...revisiting many of his boyhood haunts, including his high school, and being greeted with a surprise birthday party during half time at a Friday-night football game. Carson wipes away some tears and says to his family, "You're blowing my image here. I'm cruel and aloof, don't you know that...
...were growing serious about taking care of themselves. (There were no beauty parlors in Muncie, Ind., in 1900, the sociologist Lynds found; by 1928 there were seven.) Nast also hit upon the heretical notion that a publication could prosper by appealing to a small, select audience. If he seemed aloof and distracted as he moved through the shoals and eddies of café society, it may have been because he was, at heart, a maker of magazines. He pioneered foreign editions (the British, French and German versions of Vogue, known round the office as Brogue, Frog and Grog), introduced color...
...This aloof decision-making style, coupled with an embarrassing lack of communication, ought to serve as a telling reminder for years to come. Fortunately, there will apparently be no scars of racial conflict to accompany the memories. Harvard, so prestigious and smug., made its equally elite Ivy allies look like bold innovators in this episode. If this sort of leadership affects other issues, Harvard's tradition of excellence will certainly suffer...