Word: insularly
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...historian. H. H. Milman, was ostracized for calling Abraham a sheik. The Victorian Sunday was as cheer less as a steel engraving; the Victorian matron went swathed in undergarments and taboos; the Victorian tourist, with a former Baptist missionary, Thomas Cook, for guide, came home from the Continent more insular than he had gone away; and there is the famous tale of the Victorian playgoer who, emerging from one of the more murder-strewn royal Greek tragedies, murmured: "How different from the home life of our own dear Queen...
...picked as West Germany's new Foreign Minister is a tall, smoothly handsome Saarlander who owes his job and much of his political style to Konrad Adenauer. But Gerhard Schröder, 51, is far more insular than the Chancellor, has at best an opportunist's interest in European unity. Though his views may change in office, Schröder is loosely allied to West Germany's "new nationalism," which holds that the time has come for the young and powerful nation to assert its own voice in international affairs, relying on its allies only...
...college's raison d'etre from the beginning has been to provide a Harvard education for women. Its greatest drawing card--even during the forties when the insular women's college flourished--has been the combined attraction of the Harvard facilities, Faculty, and student body. Although Miss Ballou occasionally expressed doubts about the kind of girl who prefers co-education, most members of the Committee on Admissions have accepted the inevitable truth that the girls want to be where the boys...
...Heir to one of Arizona's most respected names (his father was Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court; three other Udalls have held office on state benches), Mormon Stew Udall has made his own reputation as an effective House liberal. A member of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, Udall holds strong opinions favoring public power, new conservation programs and greater understanding of Indian problems...
That meow was too much for one alien wife, Mrs. Joan Das of Bombay. "Pity the poor Western wife!" she answered. "If she brings her national customs over to India, she is being hopelessly insular; and if she tries to adopt Indian customs, she becomes hopelessly ridiculous. I am hanging on to my saris, because I have faith in India and Indians. I can hardly believe that every Indian I have met during the past ten years, while paying me compliments with his lips, has secretly been laughing up his sleeve...