Word: cliquish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from humor to bitterness. "Will be formed when Napoleon is 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...
...only since 1951. Son of a civil engineer, blond, shock-haired Bill Tripp is a lifelong Long Islander, has sailed everything from the family Star boat to ocean racers and frostbite dinghies, put in a twelve-year apprenticeship with Designers Rhodes and Stephens. As with all unknowns in the cliquish yacht business, Tripp at first found the going tough. In 1955 he finally got a chance to design an ocean racer, the yawl Katingo. The boat promptly won the American Yacht Club cruise two years in succession...
Gertrude or P.T.? Apart from such embarrassment as it may cause the author's immediate friends, the moral and intellectual striptease is a legitimate novelistic device for baring some universal truth. In The Malefactors, it becomes an end in itself, exposing only cliquish gossip. Written with sensibility, if debatable sense, the novel inadvertently reveals that the Lost Generation may not have been lost at all, just born to be led astray and taken in. Was its christener, Gertrude Stein, its patron saint after all, or was it P. T. Barnum...
...part of its laissez-faire attitude, Winthrop has very little of the typical "House spirit." For the most part its residents prefer a decentralized atmosphere to the more closely integrated tone of some other Houses. But is is definitely not a cliquish House and, quite to the contrary, has a rather warm geniality about...
Though there is already an opportunity for inter-school contact over the plastic food trays and modernistic armchairs of Harkness Commons, dining halls are notoriously cliquish places. It is in the corridors and the communal washrooms that minds are most likely to rub, or bump together, and it is there that they should be mixed...