Word: insularity
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...prominence. The privileged and provincial son of a Red Bank, N.J., lawyer, he saw that a career in literary journalism rather than academic criticism would lead him to the power he desired. In hundreds of reviews and in books like Axel's Castle, he introduced a wide and insular American audience to the world's leading writers and most important historical events. To the Finland Station gave depth and drama to the Russian Revolution, and his essay "Oo, Those Awful Orcs!" deflated The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit long before they became cult books...
...Reagan Administration has made full use of these McCarthyesque statutes to suppress information inimical to its own insular arms. In the last two years, the Justice Department has dismissed half of the foreign films it reviews as propaganda. In the case of the three most recent subjects of censure, the Justice has quite obviously targeted the films because they address two controversial topics, the need for environmental protection and a curb on the nuclear arms buildup...
...seeks to project a lofty vision in which high tech creates pure information that experts like himself analyze and turn into policy options. He speaks the language of government and business. The objects of his criticism are frequently dead horses: the romantic rebels of the '60s and the insular faddists of the '70s. He applauds Reaganomics but doubts that the present Administration has the technical skills to fulfill its ideology...
...newfound faithful. "Many were bewildered when they were told to throw away everything connected with their ancestral way," explains Father Shigeshi Oyama, who runs the tiny Roman Catholic parish now on Ikitsuki. Only half of the underground Christians decided to reunite with Rome. The others persisted in their insular worship...
...Gregorian chant, and "Scarlet" has an appealing marching rhythm. But U2 simply superimposes these effects on the music when they should give the changes precedence. The Dublin sound was fresh and new but rapidly stagnating. Though U2 gained a foothold in the American market by accenting their insular origin, they must develop something beyond their formula to hold onto their popularity. Otherwise they will suffer the fate of ephemeral bands like the Knack and glide right back into obscurity...