Word: insularity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among those who came to Nassau for the meeting were such disparate spokesmen as Thomas Kimball of the National Wildlife Federation, George Shultz, Secretary of the Treasury, Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, Chairman of the Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, and the top executives of leading U.S. energy companies. Said Kimball: "This is about the best way to get people together for a meaningful dialogue. I think the experience was valuable not only for the participants but for the country as well...
...suited to a new freewheeling era of rapid shifts and realignments. In Japan, policy is not shaped by a few dynamic leaders at the top (as in Washington or Peking), but through a slow process of consensus reached within a large-and largely anonymous-Establishment. To an insular nation like Japan, where xenophobia is never far beneath the surface, the psychological alternative to the haven of a steady alliance is a return to defiant self-reliance. Sometimes they fear that, inadvertently, you may be pushing them in this direction. Already, they suspect that you regard the U.S.-Japan security treaty...
...most basic. A tin-horn gambler and a golden-haired whore play out a laconic male, smart-bitch female romance in the 1890's Northwest. The portrayal is vivid, the material trite. Little Murders is a child's garden of negations. It plays on TV family stereotypes until their insular evils are revealed--and set in the context of a stupidly monied America. It's a rare, original, American comedy, but director Alan Arkin slings more mud with Jules Feiffer's screenplay than he can make stick with his staging. Gordon Willis's camera helps quite a bit. Beatty...
Over the debate, as well, hovered the Briton's traditional insular distrust of things Continental, of losing his national sovereignty, and of seeing his way of life transformed. It is a fear that, as Anthony Burgess put it, "England is to be absorbed, her own distinctive character sordined, and the end of a great Empire be completed in the bastardisation of a great empire-building nation...
...toward the U.S., though Peking's basic position on such questions as Taiwan would remain unchanged. Should he lose, however, both Nixon's visit and the warming détente with the U.S. might well be jeopardized, and China could well return to a harshly militant and insular foreign policy. Obviously, the question of who was winning in Peking, still unanswered at week's end, was of global consequence...