Word: cliquish
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...sense that everybody is pretty open. I don't find it too cliquish, really," Anderson says. "One student said that the level of tolerance and respect and interest that students expressed was kind of mutual...
This argument is directed especially toward first-years on campus. This year, in speaking with first-years, I am amazed at how many of them are not thrilled with their experiences at Harvard. Very often, they feel the community is rather cliquish, each person having his or her own friends and trying to surround him- or herself with the so-called "right people...
...older students, I am only now learning how it works. The argument has been made that large blocking groups have created cliquish tendencies within Houses. Indeed, it does seem that many students today have kept the same group of friends they made their first year without expanding very much--moreover, many of these friends are roommates, hallmates or teammates from the first year...
...current decade really will be venerated by future chroniclers of pop culture, it may well be because the '90s have produced an appealing stable of new actors who stand in smart contrast to the so-called Brat Pack of the '80s, the cliquish band of young stars that included Nelson, Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy and various sons of Martin Sheen. The '90s newcomers also provide a downtown alternative to married-with-children superstars like Demi Moore or Tom Cruise. Brad Pitt, Ethan Hawke, Winona Ryder, Uma Thurman and a handful of others, all in their 20s and early 30s, share...
...history of the men's and women's sports has been as cliquish as your everyday high school. Every team has its own place in the society that it has never strayed from...