Word: isolationism
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At first bewilderment and loneliness mark immigrant women's lives. "You often see Hispanic men sitting in a bar at night or playing dominoes outside. Women don't have that," says Gail Lerner, an administrative officer for the World Council of Churches. "Isolation is great. The extended family, the neighbors...
Some art is wallpaper. Bacon's is flypaper, and innumerable claims stick to it: over the past 40 years it has attracted extremes of praise and calumniation. There are still plenty of people who see his work as icily mannered, sensationalist guignol. He is the sort of artist whose work...
The support of South African Bishop Desmond Tutu, who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, has helped spark a recent flurry of state and local divestment legislation in the U.S. Tutu scoffs at Americans who say they are concerned about how economic cutoffs might affect blacks in South Africa. "People...
A Third World Center would "institutionalize a sense of isolation and even alienation," says the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, chairman of the group that proposed the establishment of an alternative body--the Harvard Foundation--in 1981.
Campus life tends to "isolate a person," says John P. Loza '85, head of Harvard-Radcliffe Students for Reagan. He attributes the atypical leanings of most Harvard students to this isolation.