Word: clannishness
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Highlight Reel: 1. On the difficulty of explaining modern life to our prehistoric ancestors: "Compared with their easygoing clannish ways, our frenetic status seeking and product hunting would look bewildering indeed. Our society would seem noisy, perplexing and maybe psychotic ... All you have to do is sit in classrooms every day for 16 years to learn counterintuitive skills, and then work and commute 50 hours a week for 40 years in tedious jobs for amoral corporations, far away from relatives and friends, without any decent child care, sense of community, political empowerment or contact with nature...
Though frat boys and sorority girls are already a clannish lot, the investigators tried to magnify any team rivalry that might exist by hanging their house banners on opposite walls of the testing room, requiring the participants to wear house T shirts, and dividing the room with a bright line of blue tape. Just as the work sessions were about to begin, one member of each team was taken from the room and asked to perform a task that had nothing to do with the actual study. Those students were brought back in five minutes later and instructed to rejoin...
...François Mitterrand appointed France's first and only woman Prime Minister, Edith Cresson--and tossed her aside in less than a year.) Royal still has to take on France's hoary political establishment, which isn't quite so ready to yield to her popularity. French political parties remain clannish, ideological nests dominated by their male leaders. "All the polls show French society to be very open to the idea of a woman President," says Françoise Gaspard, a feminist sociologist and former Socialist deputy. "But the political parties are still very archaic, controlled by men who can't stand...
...three years by Michèle Alliot-Marie, now the Defense Minister, who is as formidable a politician as Royal and would be a potential presidential candidate herself if Sarkozy didn't have his party's nomination sewn up. But on the whole, the French political parties remain clannish clusters of ideological currents owing fealty to male leaders. "All the polls show French society to be very open to the idea of a woman President," says Françoise Gaspard, a feminist sociologist and former Socialist Deputy. "But the political parties are still very archaic, controlled...
...Clannish athletes are not usually credited with strengthening the university community, but sometimes pigs fly. So effective have their coups d’ état of the Eliot and Lowell House dining halls been that both Houses have been forced to impose restrictions on non-residents during peak hours; a resident may invite one guest during traffic hours. Currently, Quincy is the only desirable River House that is restriction-less (at least for upperclassmen), and that domino too shall soon fall...