Word: insularity
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...Last Year But Unfortunately Not This Year”). It often seems more trouble than it’s worth to explain what we do to roommates and other friends, so the work and idiosyncratic social customs of the Phonathon tend to remain in the realm of our insular parallel universe...
...trek. Likened by some to “moving to the suburbs,” the Quad’s distance forces its inhabitants to get to know each other, according to Currier House Committee President Lacey R. Whitmire ’05, and encourages a tight-knit, somewhat insular community. “To us, it’s weird that people live at the river. Being here is normal,” says Lassiter. “With some teams going up there and being charismatic, people want to transfer to the Quad,” Dingman says...
...though he says he recognizes recent anti-Semitic activity in Europe, Gomes explains the country “is not as insular or isolated from the world of discourse as it was even thirty years ago, which is a very good reason for me to believe that it would not be affected by a corpus of world debate...
...been extraordinarily important for Southie, of all insular communities, to open up and allow the outside world in. Its ethnic integration, though painful and unfinished, is a blessing and a step forward for social justice...
...nursing homes, schools, parks and local relief agencies. His aim is to teach high school students to adopt their own sense of public service, especially as they begin to negotiate their religious identities. “I was aware that the Jewish community and Jewish day schools were often insular,” he says. He recalls that, at his own Hebrew high school, he didn’t have the chance to work as a volunteer until senior year. What he needed, of course, was a four-year lesson in public service at Harvard...