Word: standoffish
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Brutus is the moral core of the play, a bit of a standoffish prig, perhaps, but still unstainably idealistic. In Rene Auberjonois's handling he is merely sweatily fretful, like someone who has just received word that he is up for an IRS audit. When it comes to the lean and hungry Cassius, Richard Dreyfuss looks like someone who makes substantial midnight raids on the fridge. More pertinently, he appears as the soul of sanity, a jarringly implausible refutation of the qualities of envy, thwarted ambition and deviousness that are an intrinsic part of Cassius' makeup...
When Lehman Bros, and Kuhn Loeb announced merger plans last week, the proposal engendered much fear and trembling in the financial community. It was an indication that not even the most venerable and standoffish Wall Street houses can withstand the agonies of attrition that are engulfing the brokerage and investment banking business. Some other indications: 384 member firms of the New York Stock Exchange reported total profits for the first nine months of 1977 down 61 % from a year earlier, mostly because of competitive price cutting on commissions; more than 100 firms suffered losses. In the past five years...
...other member of the Mormon Mafia on Summa Corp.'s board of directors. A former Air Force mechanic and picture-frame maker, Myler signed on in 1950 as a chauffeur for Actress Jean Peters, Hughes' second wife. Overweight, short-tempered and ailing (gout, heart trouble), he was standoffish and kept mostly to himself...
President Bok explains that his standoffish policy on Saudi Arabia is strict enough that he does not want to be accused of sponsoring any consultant work there--even if that means telling Dr. Roger L. Nichols, president of University Associates and Given Professor of Microbiology, that the consulting group has to keep its distance...
...Government today, he held three different Cabinet posts under Nixon: Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Secretary of Defense and Attorney General. He was also an Under Secretary of State whose administrative ability impressed even Kissinger, then the President's adviser for national security affairs. For a slightly standoffish Boston Brahmin, Richardson gets along well on the Hill. His dramatic resignation during the Saturday Night Massacre made him a kind of hero: at an auction last year, one of his celebrated doodles fetched $1,000. Now the Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Richardson...