Word: clannish
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...appointed Master," wrote one wag. "You meet happy people on the MTA," another improvised. "Ridiculous and hollow," "frightening artificiality," and "a rationalization for dissatisfied commuters"--these were other reactions, together with "Pleasant in many ways, but causes a provincial, cliquish atmosphere," and "Definitely true--too much, perhaps makes us clannish." This sentiment was echoed in other parts of the poll...
...called Lieber Pappi, Mach Mai Sonntag (Dear Daddy, Take a Day Off). Recording firms these days will audition any subadolescent, and with good reason: teen-agers account for the bulk of German record buying. Mourns Munich Disk Jockey Werner Götze, a ripe 33: "With their clannish addiction to dress, slang and beat, they have become Germany's new, powerful, cultural fifth column, whose god is Elvis Presley, whose idols are their own stars, and whose encyclopedia is the comics...
...wife and climbed in. At the U.S. military government office he learned that the U.S. authorities, impressed by the lack of Nazi ties in his record, had picked him for Bavarian economics minister. But Erhard, a Franconian, a Protestant and a reputed Freemason, never hit it off with his clannish Catholic Bavarian colleagues. No great shakes as administrator and organizer of hand-to-mouth subsistence measures, he was already wrapped up in his plans for sweeping visionary changes. He lost his post in the next ministerial shuffle. It was not till the Bizonal authorities called him to Frankfurt...
Strauss had proposed a Defense Ministry lieutenant colonel for promotion. Brigadier General Burkhart Müller-Hillebrand, a 52-year-old member of the clannish former German General Staff, working in the personnel section, objected so strongly in writing to the colonel's lack of combat distinction in World War II that Strauss ordered the general to report to him immediately in full-dress uniform. Müller-Hillebrand obeyed, but when he had waited 30 minutes outside Strauss's office, he stalked out declaring: "This has not happened in my entire military career. If the Minister wants...
Inevitable Rule. Well aware that the members of Kenya's eleven main tribal groups and hundreds of clannish subgroups find little agreement among themselves, many white Kenya colonists stood by confidently awaiting the first signs of schism among the eight African parliamentarians, but the signs never appeared. "The eight of us will differ in matters of detail," said Mboya, "but on the basic question, we don't." Fortnight ago, as Mboya's restlessness was felt more and more throughout the land, penetrating even the Mau Mau detention camps, Kenya's government ordered government tape recorders installed...