Word: alienate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Accountability is an alien idea to the brother [Jackson]," said West...
...Israeli propaganda works in this country: from the mouths of Israeli officials, to AIPAC, to HIPAC and the "the facts" are passed onto the Harvard community as if they were researched and reflected upon by an unbiased and responsible Crimson opinion writer. Journalistic integrity must be an alien concept to Enis...
This proved too much for A.M. Rosenthal of the New York Times, the paper's former top editor and now a conservative columnist. Rosenthal wrote that Buchanan's words amounted to "blood libel," an implication that Jews have "alien loyalties for which they will sacrifice the lives of Americans." Rosenthal later insisted he had not overstated the case: "Buchanan can dish it out; let him take it a little." Others hastened to join in. The conservative Post, Buchanan's publisher in New York City, editorialized that "when it comes to Jews as a group . . . Buchanan betrays an all-too- familiar...
...campaign like this?" I say, Yes, I covered George Wallace in 1968 and 1972. Yet the dynamics are as different here as is the candidate. The early Wallace was a colorful Southern racist, at one with his followers' ancient prejudices. Duke is a smooth outsider, an intellectual of an alien ideology who has tempered his appeal to fit people's anxieties...
...alien experience for me. At Harvard, students will sell their younger siblings to get exemptions from the QRR or Lit & Arts B--but not to waste an entire afternoon across the river. So few students attend the games--and so few who do attend cheer--that Harvard football is the only team in the country that needs confidence-building by professionals when the team wins...