Word: insularity
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Each one remained an anonymous individual, safe and insular. Was this a way out of alienation and into joy as the pink sheet promised? On the contrary, it was self-defense and nothing more. There was no life at the Adams House Blizzard Mixer. There was only survival...
...Heights were meant to be insular. Harlem flounders at the bottom of the cliffs in Morning-side Park while the real patrons of the city are quietly pushed out of the neighborhood as undesirables. On the Heights Columbia wanted room for "academic neutrality." Military solicitors hawked on campus under open recruitment. Ties with the Institute for Defense Analysis were muted, and Columbia continued to expand into the neighborhood, smiling business-will-be-business to the tenants forced to leave. It all blew apart last April...
...radio and TV in the capital because, he says, "I needed a change." He sought a new perspective: distance from a government system that he feels "is not working" and from a federal bureaucracy that he finds is "betraying" the people. Then, too, he obviously wanted to escape the insular Washington social scene, particularly since he and his wife of 22 years are now separated. Says NBC News President Reuven Frank: "Every story that came up, David remembered happening five times before. He needed recharging. He was really running down...
Adele Simmons, special assistant of Admissions at Radcliffe, made a Southern recruiting trip in January. In a report describing the trip, she said that "the South, and particularly the white South, is insular and suspicious of anything Northern; promoting Radcliffe is, to some Southerners, comparable to pushing...
McClelland is obviously interested in formal, traditional calligraphy. The exhibit includes "The Whale," an old English poem which he wrote out in insular uncial letters on a regular page layout. Both the language and the letters are alien--they could be written in Islamic script and have equivalent elegant linear formality. But the letterlines and page forms have a universal meaning independent of phonetics or linguistics. They be-speak exoticness, magnificence, and respect-compelling beauty...