Word: alienated
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...disproportionate significance, as they always do for the marginal. After the U.S. entered the war in 1941, the foreignness of some artists counted against them even more: the Hungarian photographer Andre Kertesz fell under suspicion of being a spy, and Max Ernst was briefly declared an enemy alien. It wasn't easy to keep a group together in exile: the Surrealists found this in New York City, which had none of the informal meetingplaces they were used to in Paris...
...comet might be the object described in Revelation 8: 10 as a great star named Wormwood that "fell from heaven, blazing like a torch." Wormwood, according to the Bible, destroys a third of almost everything: people, land, rivers and seas. Others claim that the comet is some kind of alien mother ship "under intelligent control...
...following in Hale-Bopp's wake. Shramek's breathless claim elevated Hale-Bopp fantasies from supermarket tabloids to the mainstream press and generated thousands of posts to message boards and astronomy home pages on the Internet. One fast-spreading rumor had it that the object was an alien spacecraft four times the size of Earth...
Reader comment No.2: "You ran a story last Saturday covering a professor's talk on the alien abduction experience. However, you have consistently ignored the concerns of Harvard students who have themselves been abducted by aliens." Well, this is probably not the largest group of Harvard students who feels ignored by The Crimson. If you think The Crimson hasn't covered your segment of the Harvard community, give me a call...
Mack credits Hopkins for initially convincing him alien abduction exists...