Word: standoffishness
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...some pretty odd ones at those prices," says a big-rich snob from nearby Grassy Tor, but Peaceable Lane's eleven families, ranging from doctors and lawyers to a union vice president and a radio commentator, are not notably odd. Matt and his neighbors are a standoffish, power-mower elite who rarely pool anything beyond the cars with which the wives chauffeur the kids to school each day. But one lazy Sunday afternoon, between the Bloody Marys and the charcoal-broiled steaks, sudden fear glues Peaceable Lane together. An odd man wants in; a Negro is dickering...
...raised in isolation feel little attraction for their own kind, but after they have flocked together for six weeks, they learn to be as sociable as other chickens. Chickens are not much like humans, but Baron and Kish believe that their chicken study should bring cheer to parents of standoffish human young. If a child's withdrawnness comes from overprotection and isolation in his early years, he may be helped, as the chickens were, by being put in a flock where he can come to know and get along with his own kind...
...been warily disentangling himself ever since. Iraq's Karim Kassem cut his nation adrift from the pro-Western Baghdad Pact and welcomed Russian aid. He soon found the Communists were using the situation to dislodge him from power, and has cracked down on domestic Reds and grown more standoffish with the Soviets...
...wide-ranging factions (from New York's liberal Jack Javits to Arizona's conservative Barry Goldwater), and mold the G.O.P. into a strong, united political force. Nixon's most notable recent moves in this direction have been his indirect overtures to New York's standoffish Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who is a favorite of wavering independents and has considerable influence in pivotal (45 electoral votes) New York State. In New York last week, Nixon took public note of his private hopes of interesting Governor Rockefeller in the vice-presidential nomination. Said Nixon: "A number of party leaders...
...directed at young Prince Albert and his lovely princess. Belgians looked fondly at news pictures that showed the engaged pair at a Tuscan seaside resort. And most Belgians rejoiced at hearing that King Baudouin, currently on a U.S. tour, has-away from his father-dropped his former gloomy, standoffish mien, is spending his nights dancing with Debbie Reynolds and his days exchanging unaccustomed quips with newsmen...