Word: isolationism
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No wonder so many American artists have written, sung, painted and even gone round the bend, gone mad, in the name of rivers. In his overboard essay on Huck and Jim, Leslie Fiedler wrote that the river supports "the American dream of isolation afloat." Out of that isolation in motion...
In the recent Supreme Court ruling against a Texas high school's prayers before football games, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote, "[P]regame prayer has the improper effect of coercing those present to participate in an act of religious worship." The public-school district had argued that attendance at football...
Goldberg's narrative, written entirely in the present tense, shifts smoothly back and forth among the four main characters, tracing the adventures of each one over the year or so covered in the novel. This technique emphasizes the essential isolation of each family member, how a genteel unwillingness to cause...
"I derived most of my identity and most of my experiences from academia," Naddaff says with the confidence of a Harvard professor. "Isolation was never as issue in academic community, I never felt that anything was closed to me. My academic experience was powerful."
This physical separation from the College added another layer of isolation between the veterans and non-veterans. Even the veterans in the Houses barely got to know their compatriots.