Word: isolationism
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Still, while McArthur's colleagues around the University defend the dean against allegations that he is uncooperative, some do acknowledge instances of the Business School's seeming isolation from the rest of Harvard.
Valentine is not the only Cabotian preparing to take the plunge. Indeed, it would seem as though there is something in the water--or the isolation--of the Quad that encourages senior marriages.
From that moment, the traumatized boy acts deaf, dumb and blind; he responds only, and secretly, to the sight of himself in the mirror. Over the years he is molested by an uncle, tormented by a cousin, tossed like a beanbag by insensitive adolescents. At last a domestic upset ends...
Jeff Meehan's lighting design provides a creepy complement to Benjamin's flamboyant direction. The set, with its twin baboons, makes a number of obvious symbolic links. The twin baboons connect Earnest and Frank and their removal from civilization. The symmetrically arranged circus rings emphasize the isolation of the characters...
Phillips says these characters ended up this way for reasons having to do with his own life and his concern for historical accuracy. He found himself growing more sympathetic with Emily because "two elements about her mirrored my own life. Women in the early nineteenth century in English society were...