Word: insularity
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...Curtain divides it from the East. This, the author contends, permits Americans to go their merry, uncomprehending way while the rest of the world lives in ignorance of what the U.S. is really like. Americans, she says, suffer from an excess of earnestness, are deplorably fundamentalistic in religion, too insular, too prone to look for Reds under beds, and are basically anti-intellectual. Furthermore, Goldwaterism was an abomination that still lurks under the surface of U.S. life (along with frightening currents of emotional and physical violence), the educational system in the U.S. is lousy, the race problem is outrageous...
...Hungarian, szigeti means "insular." All too often that precisely describes the life of the professional performing musician--no more extensive than the routine of performance. But Joseph Szigeti's life takes in the whole sea of adventure in and out of music. And his treasure ship is the violin...
...information for the department, yesterday called the article a "collection of inaccuracies ... The office was established with the intention of having a director with an academic base," he said. "Vorenberg has been especially valuable because he tests reactions to criminal reforms and policy changes in another community removed from insular Washington...
This ... is London, CBS Radio Correspondent Edward R. Murrow began in 1939. "Often the British are insular, but their determination must be recorded," he said, and so he did all through the war, never more memorably than by placing his microphone near the sidewalk to catch the unhurried footsteps of Londoners walking calmly to the air-raid shelters. Last week Lon don was calling again, this time to tell Murrow, 56, that Britons will know him as Sir Edward from now on. Queen Elizabeth made him an honorary knight commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire...
Sometimes the humor seems forced, the North Country slang impenetrable. And, in truth, a more exciting and at the same time more perceptive view of a Beatle's insular existence is projected in a documentary feature titled What's Happening!-The Beatles in the U.S.A. Made with near-perfect fidelity by Albert and David Maysles, a brother team of American independent film makers who shot it on the spot with a handheld camera and portable sound gear, this bristling, hilarious account of the sound and fury generated during a public-appearance tour was shown on British television...