Word: alienates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...laws in the nation. A prospective gun owner must obtain either a license to carry firearms or a firearms I.D. card permit allowing him to keep a gun in his home or business, but not to carry it on the streets. The applicant must prove he is not an alien, felon, drug user, or mental incompetent. In practice, a local police chief can deny a qualified applicant a license to carry firearms if he feels there is not sufficient need for it; anyone without a license or permit caught with a gun faces a mandatory year in jail...
...change operation for his homosexual lover. The moronic quality of his relations with his parents and his dull-witted wife is also explored, proving to be extraordinarily unattractive and beyond most people's own experience. One tries to be sympathetic, in the nothing-hu-man-is-alien-to-me manner. But the viewer leaves the theater with that most devastating of disclaimers: This has nothing to do with...
Boston's stubborn resistance to busing is largely based in Irish-Catholic working-class neighborhoods such as South Boston and Charlestown, where whites want little to do with what they perceive as the alien and threatening culture of inner-city blacks. Says Maurice Gillen, a meter reader for Boston Edison and a community leader...
COURSES OF INSTRUCTION depicts a world safely ruled by reason. a world where knowledge and order prevail over the alien and the unknowable. The most trivial-seeming remarks in this catalogue suggest the existence of a firm underlying logic. A note appended to a course in art history--"Enrollment: Limited to 390"--must be either unthinkably arbitrary, or the visible part of a much larger, perfectly rational order...
...their polished black boots. For six long, hot hours, the men doggedly checked out the report they had received by phone. Finally, they gave up and went away, convinced that wherever he was, Jimmy Hoffa-the man of the streets and highways-did not lie buried beneath the alien corn...