Day 675: parochialism

The parochialism of the civic club made it distasteful to many citizens.

Artwok
Robert Goodnough: The Club (1993)

Word of the day
parochialism: pertaining to only one group; narrowness of interest

Quote of the day
“New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities - in its self-congratulation a kind of San Francisco of the East”
― John Gregory Dunne