Word: isolationism
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One typical example of the East German intellegensia on which Borneman focuses is Regine, a film-maker from East Berlin. She dealt with the government-imposed isolation from the West by making the best of her situation. Regine worked for the state, producing documentary films about socialist life. This occupation...
In a provocative and erudite new book, The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities, Richard Sennett argues that the past two millennia have seen the construction of walls of isolation and introspection around the human soul. In particular, he believes, the structure of the cities...
At the Kona clinic, Staten has been working to coax Ralph and a handful of others out of desperate isolation. Some of the men have formed a self-help group. At meetings of the new Hawaii Veterans Association, in the town of Captain Cook, they begin to make peace with...
The isolation of the one-room school leaves many students starved for greater contact with peers and more extracurricular activities. "I was bored out there," says Wendy Stanton, 15, who attended Pine Grove and now boards in Jordan as a high school freshman. "You miss your friends."
The turnover among rural teachers is high. Pine Grove went through four in 1978 alone, including one man who was bothered by the presence of mice. The educators must endure Montana's brutal winters in isolation, usually in tiny quarters attached to their schoolhouses. Nor is there much excitement in...