Word: loner
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...declares, "The President will have me as an ally." That is understandable, since he is indebted to Nixon for aid in winning the three-way election. An oil heir as well as a lifelong naturalist, he is tough on corporations endangering environment. Relaxed and articulate, Buckley is a loner who could become surprisingly moderate...
Steppingstone. The patrician Russell became increasingly a loner. After his unsuccessful bid for the presidency, he refused the leadership of his party in the Senate. Instead he pressed for the selection of Lyndon B. Johnson. Russell never married-he had been too busy with politics, he explained-and he usually avoided capital parties, staying in his Washington apartment reading history or the Congressional Record. "I came up here with a country-boy idea that you had to be polite and attend every party you were invited to," he would say. "That liked to killed me the first year...
...toughness of the times. Gary Cooper, the loner beating the system in Meet John Doe, Frank Capra's mystical belief in neighbors and small towns (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; It's a Wonderful Life)?these were symptoms of a national desire to leave complexities behind at the moviehouse door...
Keck had also fallen out of favor with the man who groomed him for his job: William A. Patterson. United's founder. Like many airline pioneers, "Pat" Patterson, though retired, is a busy and influential sidelines coach. He now criticizes Keck for being a loner who failed to take the board into his confidence. "Still," Patterson concedes, "these are difficult times to run anything...
...myth of her provinciality forever. O'Keeffe emerges from it as an archetypal individualist who knew about styles other than her own, who delved back to the roots of modernism (such as Oriental art) to discover her own direction, found it, and moved on. If she is a loner at 82, it is because of her special vision. To call her "provincial" because her images are mainly drawn from New Mexico is like calling Gauguin provincial because he worked in Tahiti...