Word: alienated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundreds of years." The theme has since been used by such bril liant foes of Communism as Roman Catholic Jacques Maritain, Protestant Reinhold Niebuhr and Skeptic Bertrand Russell. All these see what Driberg and Muggeridge glibly overlook - that battles against heresy may be more critical than battles against completely alien faiths...
...four years: the presence of 7,000 to 9.000 (Burma says 12,000) Nationalist Chinese troops .and hangers-on in northern Burma. After Burmese protests in the U.N.. the General Assembly backed the Rangoon government, and an agreement was negotiated to bring out some 2,000 of the alien guests with their unit commanders. Last week's evacuees were the first installment...
...Bronx curators were not discouraged. When they got three live platypuses in 1947 (TIME, June 9, 1947), they devised elaborate plans for breeding the two females. One of the three, Betty, died of a cold. But Penelope and Cecil, the male, seemed to adjust themselves gradually to the alien Bronx. Penelope and Cecil were fed extravagantly on worms, insect larvae, frogs and water plants. In summer each had an outdoor private swimming pool, and in winter they retired to an indoor platypusary...
Special Delivery. Mrs. Heady told police that she had known nothing about the killing, and Hall, with an alien twist of chivalry, backed her up. But Mrs. Heady's fingerprints were plastered all over a special-delivery ransom note sent the afternoon of the kidnaping to Bobby's father, Robert C. Greenlease, a General Motors distributor in Kansas City...
...only two characteristics of religion plainly alien to education at a non-denominational University are compulsion and sectarianism. Compulsion negates the freedom to be indifferent, a fundamental right in religious matters, and sectarianism bars those who have an interest from access to the fullest range of religious ideas. since both indifference and access are freedoms essential to a free university, doctrines that weaken them have no place at Harvard...