Word: clannishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sunny, Transcaucasian Republic of Georgia might be described as the Sicily of the Soviet Union: a warm, wine-growing land whose 5 million, mostly dark-eyed inhabitants are known far and wide as clannish, passionate and shrewd. They are also notoriously unconcerned with the principles of socialism where making money is concerned. The Georgian penchant for private enterprise has long troubled Moscow, and lately its concern has been increasing. Over the past few months, a series of fires and bombings have racked Tbilisi, the capital, and, usually in typical veiled fashion, Communist officials admit that the region's entrepreneurs...
...scene creates the feeling that an event of some import is about to take place, despite the lack of television cameras, high school marching bands, and multi-colored banners. Harvard versus Yale is probably the least commercialized of all American sports spectaculars. Not coincidentally, it is also the most clannish...
...means available. The cast is recruited mostly from the ranks of nonprofessionals, and Co-Writer O'Bannon appears in a rather hefty supporting part. He also functioned as film editor and production designer, while Producer-Director Carpenter took time out to write the music. Dark Star has the clannish, jolly air of a family show even if, like all such undertakings, it needs to have much forgiven in the name of enterprise...
...been occasional conflicts between his white mother and his Indian father, Morres says, but nothing very serious. "Indians are very magnanimous, and Dad's always inviting people over," he offers as an example. "Sometimes that's a little hard on my mother. Also, Indians are as a rule very clannish...
...psychoanalysis? After all, Freud's works had been translated into Japanese by 1930, and after World War II many Japanese medical students and doctors went to the U.S. to study psychoanalysis. Tokyo Analyst Soichi Hakozaki offers one answer: the "softened ego" of the Japanese, produced by a clannish and group-oriented culture that ignores the individualism that is essential to the success of analytic techniques...