Word: insularity
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...exclusionist club system has created this strange situation, by which all the Wilson radicals are herded up to Wilcox Hall to grow angry with the Princeton way of life and yet let their own Society become insular. Nearly all Wilson members are of this outcast variety. They care very little about actively participating in changing the system. Instead of providing the nucleus of this year's revolt, they were repelled by it. The club system is an incredible joke to them, too trivial to bother with. So they left the revolt to the campus leaders--club members who were involved...
...Southern in temperament, despite its historic and geographic ties to the Old Confederacy; though it is more Western in the look of the land and its yield, the state has never embraced the West's expansionist, assimilative outlook. Instead, in the eyes of the world it seemed aimlessly insular, obdurately independent-and comically backward. As then-Governor Charles Brough boasted 50 years ago: "You could build a wall around the state of Arkansas and its people would be self-sufficient...
...changed in Britain since then. Successive sterling crises have demonstrated to all but the most insular Britons that Little Englandism will not work in the modern industrial world. Britain's once-binding ties of trade with the Commonwealth have continued to loosen, dropping in 1956 from 40% of all British trade to a mere 28% last year. British public opinion-including an estimated 90% of businessmen-has clearly swung round in favor of joining Europe...
...delegation, "and I think we achieved them." The principal achievement was to avert a schism between the hard-lining nations on Asia's mainland, South Korea, Thailand and Viet Nam ("The ones in sight of the gallows," as one U.S. aide puts it), and the safer, softer-lining insular nations, Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines...
...York-or even of Chicago, St. Louis or San Francisco-Peoria was so long the butt of jokes because it seemed to embody that gibing epithet-provincial. The word was both an accusation and an insult, for everyone with a dictionary knew that it means "narrow, limited, insular, unsophisticated" and denotes "exclusive or overwhelming devotion to one's province." The description hardly fits modern Peoria-nor does it apply to the vast areas of the U.S. that once fell under its indictment. The cities and towns of America still maintain the pride of place that has always distinguished them...