Word: cliquish
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...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...
Rock 'n' roll is the only high-quality mass art form we have today and it would be a ghastly mistake to allow it to degenerate into the middle-class art form that classical music is, or into the cliquish limited-audience music that modern jazz became. It is disturbing to see many of the best musicians in America trying to remold rock in an alien jazz and classical music inspired cast...
...gradual series of things. But for many, it hasn't come yet. They still sit back, worry about their grades, talk about how bad the system is and how against the war they are. Many of them belong to SDS and are the ones who help give SDS the cliquish and bombastic air that turns many Harvard students away. As with their radicalism, they are in SDS in name only...
...help Franco's forces-dies in Spain when her train is bombed, while another humiliatingly ends up in the bed of a boorish art instructor who has an unrequited yen for Miss Brodie. Eventually, poor Miss Brodie is denounced to the headmistress by one of her cliquish girls, Amy Taubin, as a Fascist and dismissed-a melodramatic device so archaic as to seem almost piquant...