Word: cliquishness
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Before you get too excited, realize there's a catch: while the house is a veritable haven to those diverse passions, the same can't be said for those on the spectrum between the two extremes. Mather is a very cliquish house, and, well, a lot of people don't fit into a particular clique...
...social values are the ability to party hard and generate small talk. Harvard is what the world would look like if Miss Manners and Bianca Jagger ran the universe together: the final clubs, Hasty Pudding, and Signet kanoodling together at the top and the other social organizations aping their cliquish ways down the line...
...shift in the consensus among cognoscenti has just been made ^ especially clear. This is the season of "40 Under 40," architecture's cliquish, roughly once-a-decade (1941, 1966, 1976 and this year) initiation rite, in which several dozen younger Americans were declared the best and the brightest of their generation in a recent exhibition at New York City's International Design Center. Although the Architectural League of New York started the tradition, Interiors magazine was the 1986 sponsor, and Architect Andrew MacNair (who wound up on the list himself) oversaw the selection process. The last time...
...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...