Word: insular
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Heir to one of Arizona's most respected names (his father was Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court; three other Udalls have held office on state benches), Mormon Stew Udall has made his own reputation as an effective House liberal. A member of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, Udall holds strong opinions favoring public power, new conservation programs and greater understanding of Indian problems...
That meow was too much for one alien wife, Mrs. Joan Das of Bombay. "Pity the poor Western wife!" she answered. "If she brings her national customs over to India, she is being hopelessly insular; and if she tries to adopt Indian customs, she becomes hopelessly ridiculous. I am hanging on to my saris, because I have faith in India and Indians. I can hardly believe that every Indian I have met during the past ten years, while paying me compliments with his lips, has secretly been laughing up his sleeve...
Died. Alfonso Reyes, 70, world-roaming Mexican poet (Gulf of Mexico), essayist (The Position of America) and diplomat, who delved lovingly into the history of his land without becoming insular, offered the synthesis of cultures in Mexico and South America as a possible model of harmony for the rest of the world; of a heart attack; in Mexico City...
Ever since the time of Napoleon, the idea of a tunnel under the English Channel has fascinated the French, and to a lesser degree the insular English. Bonaparte beamed at the thought of his dragoons taking the dry road to England; Queen Victoria thought of a tunnel also, but as nothing more than an expensive, but foolproof, seasick remedy. "You may tell the French engineer," she said when one set of plans was brought to her attention, "that if he can accomplish it, I will give him my blessing in my own name and in the name...