Word: alien
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...African reality was, as always, blurred by alien notions. The real alignments are tribal or regional, not ideological; Africa remains a continent of warring nationalisms, some of them struggling on behalf of nations that have never existed as separate entities and may never...
...Arkansas Gazette during the Little Rock crisis and later a fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Way back then, Ashmore saw that Dixie had long since vanished from the earth, dislodged and replaced by the televised consciousness emanating from New York and other alien parts. Ashmore supposed at the time that his modest epitaph might be useful, say, in a generation. That time is now at hand. But will the South ever lie down? Could it be that even plausible reports of Dixie's death will always turn out to be just more exaggeration...
...subtler was Gail Casson's disquieting solo, "Marooned." A crumpled piece of cloth served in turn as the dancer's nursed and dandled baby, as an alien object enkindling fear, as the skirt in which she danced with measured delicacy or frenzied abandon, and finally as a pair of wings launching her into solipsistic flight. Through an accumulation of flawlessly-timed, needle-sharp details, Casson awakened issues of astonishing complexity: identity and mask, fantasy and madness, reality and imagination, or--as when she held the bunched skirt to her breast, moving her own mouth in the fishlike gulps...
...Yard report, the cover sported a spooky photo of a long line of rocket launchers, with machine gun laden soldiers perched menacingly on top. Super-imposed was striking type stating "Cubans in Africa." The impressive arms looked brand new, and many Americans who disdain the use of force--especially alien force such as Cuban troops in Africa--were sure to be alarmed and angered...
What does a Radcliffe woman see as her choices? The old "choice" of unpaid domestic work and twenty-four-hour-a-day child care; a career, in some profession that not only discriminates against her sex, but also feels alien to her because its ethos and value system have been shaped without women's influence; the role of super-woman whereby she combines both choices and feels she does justice to neither. The first choice may look like less of a struggle, but she rightly suspects that it is not. The other two choices at least ensure that her struggles...