Word: isolationism
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In Los Angeles, we commute alone, huddling over our steering wheels in our haste to get from one spot to another. Interaction occurs when one or our neighbors drives with us in the express carpool lane, and personal expression is limited to the middle-finger salute. Isolation reigns as our...
This University applies rigorous intellectual standards in admitting students, then it grinds them into servants of the governmental and business elites controlling American society, democracy and capitalism. Its prevailing emotional standard, however, is simply to ensure that everyone is capable of making it alone. It's always been considered too...
Unfortunately, it seems too easy to graduate from Harvard and insulate yourself among like-minded bourgeois Ivy-leaguers. This form of social isolation can easily foster warped perspectives, such as the beliefs that inhabitants of the inner-cities lack a work ethic, that the homeless are to be feared or...
In isolation, the crime recalls a chilling campfire tale. But it appears to be anything but isolated. It may in fact be just one episode in a real-life horror movie, a cross-country killing spree that has triggered a nationwide manhunt. The police are looking for the man who...
Popcorn. Slurp puddle. The flood of junk-culture references makes Spielberg sound like the world's smartest kid. Which he probably is and, once upon a shooting star, surely was. To see the man, look at the child--with Spielberg more than most, this is true. "What binds my films...