Word: insularly
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...public when student-defendants request it, in order to mediate between the undergraduate's privacy concerns and the community interest of an open proceeding. It would not make a bogus and unjust distinction in punishment for small-time computer hackers and antiapartheid demonstrators. It would include not just an insular cabal of Harvard bureaucrats but professors and possibly graduate students as well, to give it the balance, compassion, fairness and wisdom it now manifestly lacks...
...Miller had taken over the writing as well, and Daredevil gradually became a phenomenon in the insular comic industry. He rejected the constant parade of outrageous costumed villains with apocalyptic visions and pitted Daredevil against an array of criminals, killers, and thieves whose wrongs were small, banal, realistic...
...solution to our problems is the small community. Cities could be reorganized into smaller, more manageable units. Perhaps small towns could even replace the cities. No longer must the small town be characterized by insular ignorance and intolerance. The modern small community need not be an island. The same mass media that perpetuate the anonymity of the lonely crowd could tie together a nation of small communities...
Another aspect of Falwell's crusade has received less attention but is at least as important in its implications. He is mobilizing and altering the consciousness of that once insular component of American religion known as Fundamentalism. Before Falwell, Fundamentalist preachers denounced evil in "the world" in order to compel their flocks into strict isolation from it. Nowadays those same jeremiads are a stern call to social action. "When I was growing up," recalls Fundamentalist Pastor Keith Gephart of Alameda, Calif., "I always heard that churches should stay out of politics. Now it seems almost...
...only Hispanics, of course, who are tempted to hunker down in an insular subculture. "In the summer," says Emmanuel Pratsinakis, a Greek Orthodox priest in Briarwood, Queens, "the air is full of the sound of children shouting in Greek. This community gives a feeling of security." "Polish Greenpoint is comfortable, familiar," says Ponanta, the typesetter. "You stay as long as you need to, then move out to Queens, to Manhattan." Assimilation still seems inexorable. "We want to be part of American culture," says Richard Ou of Flushing. The Russian New Yorkers may keep eating piroshki forever, but, says Sima Blokh...