Word: in-group
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...romance builds happily until Mirsky returns ostentatious effort to violate once this image of innocence. How now that she knows true love, can see through the phoney, and chooses to marry the hard- fellowship-winning Scott. Because in these in-group affairs l everyone else, Mirsky and the sexual tutor are both invited wedding, where true to Jew comments slightingly about food, and says something to the of Curses, foiled again...
...paternalistic Upjohn Co. of Kalamazoo, Mich., the most notable in-group is the in-laws. Since 1936 Upjohn has been run by Chairman Donald Gilmore, 66, who married the daughter of Founder W. E. Upjohn. (Since Upjohn was married to Gilmore's widowed mother, Gilmore's wife is also his stepsister.) Last week, with his Jan. 1 retirement approaching, Gilmore named his own quietly able son-in-law, Ray Theodore Parfet Jr., 39, as the company's president and chief executive officer. Despite corporate inbreeding, Upjohn has prospered, is now one of the nation...
...whole package of in-group chatter concludes with a provocative (that word, generally a euphemism, applies in this case) request that "we" (a pronoun Mr. Kofsky uses very offensively) ought to like Ray Charles more than Sonny Terry, because he's more authentic. His two points, that white intellectuals have created for themselves a dreamy and gratifying image of the nonviolent Negro, and have foolishly rejected the beat protest, are made arrogantly. His snottiness would indeed be unbearable if one couldn't detect an undercurrect of self-disgust in Kofsky himself...
...misfortunes was to have been our grandfather. He reshaped, single-handedly, the way a century thought: he left, if anything, too strong a mark. It is hard, now, to imagine a good short story in other than the "Hemingway-an" style. His safaris and bullfights have become the in-group frauds and fads of the Ruarks and Barnaby Conrads; the Spanish Civil War is now as over-romanticized as our own. But Hemingway found them first; and by rendering such images with the tactile reality of a consummate art, he fixed them as lasting points of focus...
...attain all knowledge, so he satisfies himself with learning as little as he can, except in fields where he won't be tested. And he'll have no trouble finding an in-group which approves...