Word: isolationism
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JAKE'S WOMEN. Neil Simon's most nakedly autobiographical play, opening on Broadway this week, is also his most acidly self-critical. His enduring subject has been the emotional isolation of the artist, and he has never been more acute -- but there is nary a redemptive one-liner in earshot...
Moreover, while the ruble was nearly worthless at home, it was totally without value abroad. No banker or investor wanted to hold an artificial, or "soft," currency. The ruble was an impediment to foreign trade and contributed to the isolation of the U.S.S.R.
During the republic's campaign for independence, the erstwhile friend of Mikhail Gorbachev was branded a "top Kremlin agent." But in the wake of ousting dissident turned despot Zviad Gamsakhurdia in January, Tbilisi leaders took a more benign view of the onetime Georgian Communist Party boss and last week appointed...
The pattern of abuse is a distinctive variation on the nerd bashing that almost all bright, ambitious students -- no matter what their color -- face at some point in their young lives. The anti-achievement ethic championed by some black youngsters declares formal education useless; those who disagree and study hard...
DOESN'T IT SOUND like intercultural and race relations were improved in Sanders Theater that night? And what about the Foundation's started goal--"to reduce the isolation and estrangement felt by minority students without encouraging the separation of races." Nothing like reverse psychology. By funding Muhammad, the Foundation supported...