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...world, a tension he experienced as the son of Orthodox Polish immigrants who deemed his work frivolous. Inspired by the writing of Evelyn Waugh and James Joyce, whom he read on the sly as a teenager, Potok, unlike religious skeptics Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, lovingly depicted the tight-knit, insular yet culturally rich community of the Orthodox and Hasidim...
...Catholic, I also lived in a wide, diverse world. In this modernity of discussion and skepticism, of irreverence and sensuality, of technology and pop culture, I felt equally at home. Like many Catholics of my generation (I'm in my late 30s), I grew up not in a tightly knit urban Catholic enclave--most of my family emigrated to Britain from Ireland at the beginning of the last century--but in the booming suburbs of the 1960s and 1970s. My Irish grandmother was barely literate. Her grandson has an Ivy League Ph.D. But while my peers left the church...
...create an atmosphere where everyone cares about Harvard soccer and that helps form a tight-knit group,” Kerr says...
...high,” Singer says. “The biggest reason I think is that it is urban and these kids thrive in that and it affords the students a degree of independence that they like. The kids are self-starters—the idea of a close-knit campus that doesn’t have many outside opportunities is not very appealing to them...
Megan A. Sullivan, who has worked for the store for three years, said the staff’s close-knit community creates a friendly environment that is different from that at chain stores...