Word: insularity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hayman says he thinks Harvard's insular nature contributes to students' ignorance of the homeless. "Harvard students have been conditioned in classes to think of people as less intelligent then they are," he says. 'If [I] say 'Hi', they don't say 'Hi' back...
...move away from the armed struggle for both personal and strategic reasons -- even if some of the local commanders, mostly from rural districts in the North, remain unconvinced that it is time to lay down arms. As evidence of the I.R.A.'s change of heart, sources familiar with the insular and suspicious community of Catholic nationalists on Belfast's Falls Road cite the fact that Sinn Fein has begun working the pubs to begin explaining the need for some sort of cease-fire...
...Will an insular regime become more open or more dangerous...
Supposedly, academia champions the ideals of truth and knowledge in a world overrun by political intrigues and commercial sellouts. But even this insular, scholarly community cannot keep out the influences of popular culture and politics. In fact, the most educated members of society can become the most persuasive, and thereby dangerous, proponents of irrational ideology. The musical A House Divided examines in closer detail the reactions of the fictional Riverside College to such propaganda and the mass hysteria that characterized the anti-Communist McCarthy...
...after the Spanish-American War of 1898.) "There was resentment, trauma, about being forced to learn all subjects in English years ago," says Ricardo Alegria, executive director of the Center for Advanced Studies in San Juan. Those memories, he speculates, cause many to resist learning English even today. Insular identity remains sacrosanct. Last week, after Madonna caressed herself with the Puerto Rican flag during a San Juan concert, politicians of all stripes raised angry criticism. Local clerics even pressed a campaign of hanging black ribbons on trees in protest...