Word: cliquish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some directing. "It fascinates me at this moment in my life even more than acting. The more you enjoy yourself onstage, the less the audience does," she advised. "The more you cry onstage, the less the audience cries. If you become too self-indulgent, you become too cliquish." Was there a role she had always wanted to do, but never had the chance? asked a student. "Yes," said the newly wed Liz. "Mrs. John Warner...
...Radcliffe senior will say, "I was glad I lived in the House for two years but tired of superficial dining hall conversation. Adams House was very cliquish and I wanted to get away from it," while a Harvard senior will explain that he lives off campus "because people are monsters. A large group of people is just a large group of monsters. And I just prefer relating to monsters in small groups...
...disappointment. It had a bigger reputation than it could live up to partly because Advocate editors liked to tout the names of former contributors who escaped undergraduate awkwardness and secured niches in various literary pantheons. At times the magazine seemed a testing ground for the efforts of cliquish students who aspired--under the direction of Robert Lowell--toward the techniques of Pound and Eliot. At best much of the material printed was imposingly academic in the Pound-Eliot tradition--and all too often, doctrinaire in approach and discouragingly pretentious...
Whereas the draftee returns to civilian life, the Soviet officer is a professional soldier. The officer corps tends to be proud, cliquish and self-perpetuating. There are special cadet schools for all services, where the sons of officers are trained to take their place in the military elite. Officers are paid about 25% more than civilians of similar age and skill. A senior lieutenant earns 140 rubles ($155) a month, a colonel 500 rubles, a marshal 2,000. Along with the money goes the right to shop in special military stores; some generals and marshals and their wives are also...