Word: insular
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Hamilton still buys teeny shoes (size 51A) and clothes in boys' sizes, but his attitude toward his sport is grownup. "You live, you hope, for 100 years. You are only a top skater for ten. So that is the perspective." He knows that his insular, single-minded life has been severely Limiting...
...involvement with the project helps MacLeod to balance "what I found to be the cloistered and insular experience at Harvard," he said...
DIED. Wayne Aspinall, 87, crusty Democratic Congressman from Colorado who during twelve terms (1949-72) fought for Western development, dominating the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee for 14 years; of prostate cancer; in Palisade, Colo. Although instrumental in the passage of the 1964 Wilderness Act and the 1965 Land and Water Conservation Fund Act, he drew fire from environmentalists for his multiple-use policies that kept open public lands for mining, grazing, timbering and oil exploration...
...father was a schoolteacher, his mother a suffragist, and the Cornish village of his childhood comfortable and insular. His parents wanted him to become a scientist, but after two years at Oxford he decided to study English literature instead. After graduation he held a succession of temporary jobs, including one with a provincial theater company, published a volume of poems when he was 23, and enlisted in the Royal Navy at the onset of World War II. In his early 30s, Golding came of age. "One had one's nose rubbed in the human condition," he recalls. He witnessed...
Yamamoto, 39, spent a little time in Paris during the late 1960s, absorbing European influences and watching the growing impact of his countryman Kenzo Takada, 43, on the insular enclave of French fashion. The whimsically heretical Kenzo and the silkenly elegant haute couturière Hanae Mori, 57, were the first Japanese designers to have any visibility or impact outside their own country, and both had to leave home and establish bases of operation in Paris or New York City to do it. Japanese fashion was not a force then. It was really more like a curiosity, and Yamamoto returned...