Word: alienates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alpine grandeur that enables De Sica to display the saccharine cinematography that made his Garden of the Finzi Contins such a visually attractive but intellectually vapid film Snow capped mountains, exquisitely dressed women, luxurious but tasteful architecture and rustic charm proclaim heavyhandedly that we have entered another world totally alien to Clara's seedy three room tenement and grimy factory. Here Clara has everything she has been denied all her life, a room of her own, time to herself, wealthy girlfriends to lavish clothes on her and teach her how to be a lady men to admire her. This topsy...
Such perceptions of an alien atmosphere in the Houses stemming from a widened gap between generational attitudes and cultural modes has led to efforts among some Housemasters to establish more formal channels of communication...
Most U.S. immigration requirements were waived for the emergency. Vietnamese passengers carried a certificate addressed to the immigration officer at the U.S. port of entry: "The below-listed alien dependents have been granted parole status by the Attorney General for entry into the United States without immigrant visa...
...cared for by members of their extended family, or by friends from their community or village; the children's milieu is thus altered as little as possible. When the evacuation began, many South Vietnamese found it doubly repugnant that their waifs were being transplanted into an utterly alien culture and given American names. Many Americans were not surprised when Saigon announced last week that with 1,700 children already gone, it would tighten up its temporary easy-exit policy to prevent the quick departure of large groups. Said Martin Teitel, director of the American Friends Service Committee...
...staff. He has been worried by the persisting clashes and lack of cooperation between his cops and the 18,000 Mexican-Americans who live in the city. The cops regard the high-crime area as enemy territory bristling with real and imagined dangers; the Chicanos view the police as alien, brutal oppressors who despise their way of life...