Word: insularity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This Pleasantville, this Bedford Falls, this Brigadoon, this Springfield, you see, is really Stepford--a place so sanitized there are no toilets or double beds, a people so insular they have never known what it's like to feel unprogrammed joy or lust or rage or bravery or intellectual adventure. When they finally open themselves to these emotions (by gazing at a Picasso or hearing Buddy Holly or spending the evening with a naughty girl from the '90s), the people of Pleasantville literally blush into color. They wear their passion on their shamed, fervent faces, on their clothes, like...
...What's so funny about it is howludicrous a notion it is. Writers, with rareexceptions, are never recognized, and work in thistruly sociopathic, insular world--a world in whichyour emotional life hinges on some adjectivalphrase, whether it's pulled off or not, for weekson end, it may just push you into some horrible ofdepression--that's certainly not the life of atrue celebrity...
Last fall, the leaders of Radcliffe'sSchlesinger Library, Bunting Institute, MurrayResearch Center and Public Policy Institute beganholding regular meetings to discuss ways for theoften-insular arms of the college to collaborate...
...tutors of color, we are wary of any policy,including randomization, which implies that acommunity of minority students gathering togetheris inherently insular, and thus, problematic," theletter argued...
Last fall, the leaders of Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library, Bunting Institute, Murray Research Center and Public Policy Institute began holding regular meetings to discuss ways for the often-insular arms of the college to collaborate...