Word: clannish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enter its grim, grey, 17th century walls, takes religion seriously, and demands reparation for sins against divine law. Without a doubt, Pastor Van der Wiel, 54, had offended Elburg's sense of the proprieties. As pastor of the Reformed Church for ten years, he had earned the clannish townsfolk's respect for his learned sermons, theological orthodoxy and stern denunciations of engaged couples who did not wait until their wedding night. The town was horrified seven weeks ago when four local youths reported that they had seen pretty, blonde Matje Leusink, 26, kissing the pastor...
Profitable Intangibles. Some clannish companies eventually sell out or merge: Q-Tips, for example, recently merged into Chesebrough-Pond's, and Breck Shampoo into American Cyanamid. A much larger number of successful and independent businesses find ingenious ways to overcame the hurdles. Charles Cassius Gates Jr., president of Denver's Gates Rubber Co., has led his company abroad and diversified it so widely that it now has both egg factories and a mutual fund. To overcome the disadvantages of nepotism, Seattle's Simpson Timber has ruled that the only job open to the owners' family...
Permanent Revolution. People's Daily warned last spring that China's enemies were pinning their hopes on the "deterioration of the younger generation," and that concern for "seniority" in promoting officials was "backward, clannish, feudal thinking." When the Communist Youth League met a few weeks later, its first secretary, Hu Yao-pang, 51, was reelected, but 144 of its 178 committee members were replaced...
...offshoot of the fundamentalist Plymouth Brethren, the Exclusives have traditionally been a clannish sort, clustering in self-imposed ghettos in small English towns and Scottish fishing villages. They seldom marry outside the sect, and refer to each other as "saints"-the only true disciples of Christ. The Brethren do not smoke, dance, watch TV or wear makeup, but official doctrine says that "strong drink is to be regarded as a creation of God and saints should freely drink...
Every Thursday at precisely 4 p.m., the leaders of Argentina's wealthiest, most influential-and most clannish-dynasty sit down to weigh their business affairs. The six brothers of the Braun-Menendez family, ranging in age from 55 to 68, meet in a paneled Buenos Aires board room under a portrait of their late father Mauricio. Around the table each in turn stands up to discuss the fortunes and policies of Sociedad Anonima Importadora y Exportadora de la Patagonia. Something like a Hudson's Bay Co. of the Southern Hemisphere, "La Anonima" controls most of the commerce...