Word: cocoon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wirthlin is not surprised. He has found the same "cocoon" in corporate life, where a group of talented people gather their ideas from the same information base and debate them with one another day after day. In that situation, seedlings of misconception can often grow to mighty oaks before reality intrudes...
...Guide to Colleges, demonstrating that the current edition is as had as the first. Caesar's article also revealed something about Black students' lifestyles at Harvard that the Crimson eight to spend more time writing about--namely, the growing cosmopolitanization of their lifestyles, dispersing beyond the one dimensional ethnic cocoon of Black roommates. Black dining tables, Black singing groups, etc. etc. These cosmopolitans among Harvard Black students recognize that excessive ethnocentric behavior is dysfunctional to the egalitarian goals of parity for Blacks (and other weak groups) in institutional participation, leverage, and clout in American society...
Gromyko inhabits a cocoon as though born to it. I do not believe he has ever had close friends. Inside the Stalin-era skyscraper that houses the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Foreign Trade, Gromyko takes a special elevator, reserved for him and a few very senior officials, straight to his seventh-floor office. There, except for a meal in a private dining room, he stays all day, reading those documents that Makarov and others on his personal staff feel it is essential to show him, seeing a carefully screened group of senior ministry officials...
...threat of further violence did not seem to unsettle the Prime Minister. "The fact is that we do live in a certain amount of danger," she said. "You simply cannot live in a cocoon." Thatcher predicted increased pressure for a restoration of the death penalty, a measure she has always personally supported. She also announced that talks with Irish Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald about Northern Ireland would take place in November as planned. "We are not," a senior aide vowed, "going to give in to the bomb and the bullet." -ByJayD. Palmer. Reported by Bonnie Angelo/London
Some call it a cocoon, sealed off from the realities of the world. Others call it home. It offers perhaps the best view of a presidential campaign, and the worst. Tightly knit and suffused with the cramped camaraderie generally enjoyed only by soldiers enduring basic training or inmates in an asylum, the fuselage of a candidate's plane provides the skewed perspective from which many of the country's most prestigious political reporters view the electoral process...