Word: alienated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end the Immigration authori ties swung into action. They picked up Belfrage, charged that he was an alien engaged in Communist activity in the U.S., and took him to Ellis Island to await deportation under the McCarran...
Nine conversations out of ten are apt to bring out one's collegiate affiliation. A casual remark, such as, "When I was at Harvard the subway ran from Cambridge to Boston in seven minutes," is totally useless. It is impossible to minimize the effect of the word "Harvard" on alien ears. Casual reference will be regarded as a sly way fr one to get across his background...
...Waterberg is hailed by his supporters as "First President of the coming South African Republic." His program seems to call for a stratified New Boer Jerusalem not very different from Plato's Republic: at the bottom, black slaves to hew wood and fetch water; in the middle, alien (i.e., British) traders to deal with petty commerce; at the top, the Boer elite, settled on the good earth and ruled by their priests (the predikants). Top of the pile would be the philosopher-President: Johannes Strydom...
...conduct themselves like autocrats . . . as if they alone knew everything, as if only they can say anything relevant and forceful, and as if it is the task of others only to support their opinion. In such an environment, there is created favorable ground for lack of principle, for alien morals, for toadyism and servility...
Charlie Chaplin, British subject, surrendered his U.S. re-entry permit in Geneva and flew off to London. Chaplin had made his decision. The U.S. Immigration authorities had warned him that he would be subject to a screening exam, just as any other alien, when he returned. In his London hotel room he wrote his valedictory after 40 years of U.S. residence: ". . . Since the end of the last world war, I have been the object of lies and propaganda by powerful reactionary groups who, by their influence and by the aid of America's yellow press, have created an unhealthy...