Word: insularity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minute walk to class from 29 Garden St. was welcome opportunity for some much-needed exercise, fresh air and a touch of perspective in the midst of an otherwise very insular experience...
...consistently in opposition to mainstreamHarvard than most people I know. Nonetheless,there are a lot of reasons why she suceeds here.It's not like polar opposites: Tracey andHarvard," her housemate says. "My sense is thatshe doesn't buy into a lot of things that mostpeople do--the kind of insular view of the worldthough the Ivory Tower." Wizansky adds, "She talksabout being alienated a lot but she's been able tomanuever well and get stuff...
...could have just gone on with his insular, middle class ways, but he remained connected with the Black consciousness," says Thomson Professor of Government Martin L. Kilson '58. "Wilson put his upper-middle class discipline to [the movement], but allowed the militancy and student activism to flourish...
...institution as self-righteous and insular as Harvard requires someone to keep it reasonable and honest. On our fair campus, that individual is Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. '53. Once again, Professor Mansfield has hit the nail right on the head. At a faculty meeting last week, he pointed out that Harvard's sexual harassment guidelines are unfair to men and violate academic freedom...
...Insular intelligence agencies once resisted sharing their secrets not only with bureaucratic rivals but also with their customers in the White House, the State Department and the Pentagon. Now, says Intelink director Steve Schanzer, "agencies are competing with one another to get their products online" for fear of being ignored--and unappreciated--by the new viewing market...