Word: stand-offish
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Kennedy also found visible sustenance in California crowds. In dramatic contrast to the stand-offish manner of Oregonians on the Kennedy trail, Californians North and South greeted the slight, tanned candidate with a frenzy and gleeful emotion that served to energize his lagging effort. California's beachcomers, young black militants, migrant laborers, and keyed-up suburban housewives gave Kennedy a personal and political delight he had not felt for weeks...
...tone. The author admits that Clubs "probably" have a bad effect on the academic efforts of their members, but claims that they "offer the undergraduate a congenial circle of friends that the college at large does not try to offer him." He considers his Club friends to be less stand-offish than "the average Harvard man," but fails to make it clear whether or not those genial Club men are genial only with other Club men or if they are just naturally "hail-fellows-well-met." Finally, the author draws an absurd parallel between the exclusiveness of political groups...
...give our full support to Great Britain's earnest efforts to provide for international consultation in case of war. We have primly stood aside and watched the democracies of Europe destroy one another with exorbitant tariff walls and injure the cause of peace by their own petty jealousies. Our stand-offish attitude has split the solidarity of those nations working for peace and the respect of international law, while it has also encouraged the marauding lawless powers to grow increasingly reckless in their violations of treaties and the principles of humanity...