Word: clannish
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...drama (especially the directing and producing aspects) is often easier through the Houses than through the Loeb. The Executive Board of the Harvard Dramatic Club chooses what is to be presented in the Loeb Ex as well as on the main stage and has the reputation of being clannish when making decisions. Also, the extravagant technical resources and conveniences of the Loeb tend to overpower students and-or their productions...
...chokazoku tend to be clannish. Two-thirds of them reside in Queens, many in the Flushing neighborhood. About 150 bachelors have crowded into a building on Manhattan's West 103rd Street, where they rent rooms for $6 a day. For relaxation, the Japanese gather in the Nippon Club, which is across the street from Carnegie Hall, or in East Side piano bars for a drinking bout to let off tension. On Sundays, those who do not play golf with American business contacts play golf with each other, jabbering happily about business in Japanese. Says one of the chokazoku...
...have been given a citation for the compassionate insight he renders into the life of a cop. He successfully delineates the humanism of the policeman trying to do an impossible job. Wambaugh does more than "keep out of trouble with the reader," he evokes a positive response toward this clannish group of men who know...
Criminologists, law professors and judges have theories and ideas and observations about crime, but policemen know. Because they are just ordinary men, the burden of knowledge generally makes them clannish, somewhat smug and unusually prone to divorce and suicide. In the case of Joseph Wambaugh, a sergeant in the Los Angeles police department, firsthand knowledge has led to a workmanlike first novel, short on nuance, but notably convincing. It follows three L.A.P.D. rookies through five years on the force, climaxing in the terrorized disorder of the police effort to contain the 1965 Watts riot...
...psychic need in the world's most crowded country. "Merely living here," he says, "breeds friction, tension and frustration. Betting on the horses is a means of alleviating that pressure." As for the crush of the crowds, he adds: "Where interests are one and the same, we clannish Japanese delight in the multitude, finding in it not solitude but a soothing sense of belonging...