Word: clannish
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...inspiration to rise up against their perceived oppressors: Western and Arab, Christian and Jewish. "If you develop a psychosis that the whole world is against you," says M. Cherif Bassiouni, professor of international law at Chicago's De Paul University, "then the only way to survive is to become clannish, mystical, fanatic and sometimes to lash...
...When Edmund Muskie ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972, his Catholicism was only a minor biographical detail. Kennedy presided over a change of political generations in America, and did it with brilliant style. He brought youth and idealism and accomplishment and elan and a sometimes boorish and clannish elitism to Washington. He refreshed the town with a conviction that the world could be changed, that the improvisational intelligence could do wonderful things. Such almost ruthless optimism had its sinister side, a moral complacency and dismissive arrogance that expressed itself when the American elan went venturing into Viet...
...help keep the advancing Iranian forces at bay. If Iraq succumbs to Khomeini's aggression, it would probably become a Shi'ite-ruled Arab nation inclined to spread the Islamic revolutionary gospel throughout the Arabian peninsula, where sizable Shi'ite populations have long resented the clannish Sunni monarchies that rule them. The tiny island state of Bahrain, where 55% of the population are Shi'ites (some of Iranian origin), nearly fell victim last December to a Khomeini-inspired coup attempt...
Ever since the Soviets invaded Afghanistan last December, one of the most stubborn concentrations of anti-Communist Muslim resistance has been among the clannish Pushtun tribesmen of rugged Kunar province, near the Pakistan border. Six weeks ago, Soviet military commanders made the narrow river valleys and inaccessible mountains the target of their first major field offensive. Seven full combat battalions rolled into the province with the apparent mission of cutting rebel supply lines by sealing the porous border. TIME Correspondent David DeVoss managed to get across the frontier from Peshawar, Pakistan, for five days and linked up with fighting units...
Many people resent Harvard men, and sometimes their resentment veers toward hatred, which provokes harsh accusations: 'They're a bunch of damned snobs... They're always throwing their weight around... They're too clannish and exclusive...