Word: insularity
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...Harvard community, where it is frequently observed that the diversity of opinions on some issues is already limited, do we really want to close our discussion off to a potential source of new perspectives? Is the Harvard bubble not already sufficiently insular? It’s difficult to say, when reading existing blogs like Cambridge Common, how much of the readership comes from outside of Harvard, but it is empirically not the case that the uninformed riffraff masses come in and preclude substantive discourse, so what gains are realized by keeping them...
...Yorker cartoons, even though she presumably knows the culture better and better. MANKOFF: I don’t think that’s true of the present cartoons in The New Yorker if you look at them. I think the cartoons used to be a little bit more insular. But they’re pretty accessible now…We don’t do a demographic on it to find out if everybody gets it. We just, you know, if we like it, I like it, Remnick likes it, we publish it. Any cartoon your mom doesn?...
...full participation in its church services to baptized Catholics. There are only a handful of Catholics in HRCF— hardly anyone double-bills with the CSA. Mostly, the groups stay separate, and considering how similar they are in terms of purpose and rhetoric, they’re surprisingly insular. CSA doesn’t work with HRCF on the annual Veritas Forum, for instance, and HRCF members don’t come to the CSA’s weekly mass at St. Paul’s Church. But student leaders on both sides say their organizations aren?...
...dragons bond at birth, and when the egg hatches at sea, our hero, Captain Laurence, must become the dragon's rider--which distresses him, since, as everyone knows, "no woman of sense and character would deliberately engage her affections on an aviator." Laurence's induction into the strange, insular world of 19th century dragon riders and his unfolding relationship with his highly intelligent mount, Temeraire, make enthralling reading--it's like Jane Austen playing Dungeons & Dragons with Eragon's Christopher Paolini...
...Ponting might advise his players that the public matters, that there would be no lucrative contracts without it. Always an exclusive club, Australian cricket under him seems more insular than ever. One day, hopefully, Australians will tire of denigrating English sporting teams; their mocking of English cricketers since 1989 has been especially merciless. It was thus bewildering that at an awards ceremony in Melbourne last month, Ponting took offence at former England spinner Phil Tufnell's taped send-up of Australia's Ashes campaign. Ponting said he wouldn't have minded so much had Tufnell "ever really done anything against...