Word: insularity
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...about whom to select for tenure. Although faculty from within a school are often the most qualified to determine how cohesively candidates will work with existing Faculty and the student body, the selection of tenure without any outside judges can make the tenure process dangerously biased. Too often, the insular world of academia breeds a faculty that “self-reproduces” in only offering tenure to a certain type of professor favored by the faculty. Broadening the initial round of selection with ad hoc committees incorporating non-Harvard opinions, internal favoritism will likely be reduced and fresh...
Webb insists that such hardships are relative. "It wasn't like working at the Perdue chicken factory," she says. True enough, and in a world that can be as insular as fashion, such a perspective is important to maintain. But it's the sort of obstacle that has the potential to keep images of black beauty out of view. The motive may not necessarily be racist: some hairdressers who work the runway shows say they are reluctant to style black hair because they have little experience doing so and don't want to do a bad job. What seems surprising...
...Harvard, the unflappable attitude is easy enough for most to cultivate, or at least affect, because even the most sheltered pretend to world-weariness, and because, more charitably, the scope of human experience is fair game under academia. But within this paradoxically insular world of cosmopolitanism, where many spend far too much time in privilege and classrooms and offices, being experienced with this world is often incorrectly conflated with being blas?...
...Although Kabuki is an insular and conservative culture, it isn't the artistic trap it might seem. In fact, it's recently become a fertile breeding ground for film and TV talent. Twenty-five-year-old Shinnosuke Ichikawa cultivates a parallel career as a TV-drama heartthrob, and 20-year-old rising star Shichinosuke Nakamura landed a supporting role in this year's Tom Cruise vehicle The Last Samurai. Tokyo's Asakusa Kokaido theater has capitalized on the trend by staging Kabuki plays showcasing younger actors. "They realize that people like Shido are the key to Kabuki's future," says...
...still got plenty of time for planning before the short Antarctic travel season kicks off in mid-November. Avoid the large cruise lines, because not only are their expeditions more expensive than those on smaller ships but they also don't make regular landfalls on the ice and their insular atmosphere (not to mention bingo and cabaret) keeps you from experiencing the true remoteness of the continent...