Word: cocoon
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...midst of change that is vast and dramatic, the South has emerged from the political cocoon in which it was long imprisoned. But the transformation is still in transition...
Above all, perhaps, there is increasing concern that the samhället-the unique collective society created by Sweden's own brand of socialism-has fostered both a bureaucracy and a mentality that put security ahead of initiative, welfare ahead of opportunity and to envelop life in a cocoon of red tape. It was the labyrinth of tax regulations administered by a stern bureaucracy that prompted the self-exile of one of Sweden's most creative citizens: Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman, 58, who settled in Hollywood in April after suffering a nervous breakdown brought on by his arrest...
...methods encouraged labor historians to spin a cocoon around American workers, isolating them from their own particular subcultures and from the larger national culture. An increasingly narrow "economic" analysis caused the study of American working-class history to grow more constricted and become more detached from larger developments in American social and cultural history...
...course of one afternoon after a particularly grueling math exam. To this day she refers to the experience as "a clinical procedure." But I think in each case the overwhelming emotion was relief, tinged with a vague disappointment: we had finally grappled our way out of the cocoon, but only to discover that we were still caterpillars...
...reason to be pleased with himself: taking the starch out of tennis has proved to be highly profitable. His income this year could reach $ 1 million, with only a quarter of that coming from tournament winnings ? at a time when tennis has busted out of its country-club cocoon to become one of the nation's most popular spectator and participant sports with an estimated 34 million players. Jimmy Connors, the hellion of tennis, has become a leader and symbol of the upheaval...