Word: insularly
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Despite the conference's size, the group was surprisingly close knit and insular. It was somehow satisfying to walk into the cocktail party that initiated the conference and see Harold Cruse, the black writer, deep in conversation with Jan Kott, the Polish professor of Comparative Literature. Still, it was at the same time disconcerting to see how many of the new arrivals greeeted each other as old friends. Either the intellectual world was very small or representatives of only a small part of it had made it to the conference...
...tool of argument. And it is through irony that White Sale's vision of Cambridge, as a unique state of mind and as a microcosm of American society, is exposed. The primary irony is, after all, the conception itself. A show which propels an audience from the insular range of Cambridge to the vast expanses of history and world politics, only to pull that audience back again, from the conference table at Paris to lunch at the University Restaurant, is relying on contrast for its most important effects. And the juxtapositions of Cambridge and the world in White Sale produce...
Dean Glimp, who was chairman of the Faculty committee that recommended the NROTC changes, defends ROTC's place in the curriculum as part of Harvard's responsibility to the community. Pushing ROTC out of the Harvard program, he argues, would be making the college insular at a time when it should be becoming involved. The analogy might hold if ROTC had not become what it is--mechanism for military recruiting and a narrowly pre-professional program. Harvard gives no academic credit for journalism courses, pre-law courses, or pre-business courses; it should give none for pre-military courses either...
Cities, like people, react to war in different ways. After a month of terror, Saigon has totally lost its old insular mood of relative peace and well-being and developed a bothersome split personality. By day, the South Vietnamese capital is struggling to regain a veneer of normalcy; by night, as artillery crashes in the suburbs and searchlights stab the sky, Saigon retreats to a mood of agonizing fear and foreboding, awaiting another Communist onslaught that most of its citizens feel is inevitable...
Almost since the days when Druidic warriors daubed themselves with woad, the notion has persisted that British painting is a barbarous and insular affair. By and large, the thesis is correct -but there is an important century of exception. Between 1760 and 1860, when Britain swept to the forefront among nations, its painters were as engaged and influential as its soldiers and diplomats were at Waterloo and the Congress of Vienna...