Word: alienates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...specter of Leopold Bloom haunts this book... The easiest entry into its rhythms and movement is to recall the Bloomsday odyssey. I go out into the alien world, hard fearful, lonely. My afternoon stroll passes Sandymount strand: lustful, yearning, fleshy, I descend into a blasphemous bedeviled Nighttown.... and then I wander home...
DuBois, who returned last month to the United States after four years in Cario, Egypt, made frequent references to Africa as the black homeland. She called America "this alien land so different from the warm, fragrant, sun-drenched plains of Africa...
...hearts, our minds and our actions are no longer so closely linked as they were. Much of the blame must go to the Nixon Administration. At no time in history had the aims of the White House been so consistently alien to the values of the people as during Nixon's reign of terror. He delivered packaged death to Vietnam and we protested; he sliced away at the programs that helped the poor, and we cried out in pain. But never had contempt for youth been so clear in such powerful places as it was during the Nixon regime; never...
...William Cropper's fascists, consuming the globe for dinner, and Saul Steinberg's Hitler, portrayed as a constipated hen. The progressives are matched in temper and tone by conservatives of the '50s: Joseph Parrish's conception of the U.N. as a Trojan horse, brimming with "alien spies"; Reg Manning's portrayal of General MacArthur's hat hemmed in by toppers belonging to The Appeasing Diplomats...
...League schools, contacted him when he was in high school. Sam has never been able to figure out how they got his name, but since they did--and, he jokes, since his high school principal advised him against it--he decided to make the big trip to the alien East, while most of his friends went off to find jobs or fight in Vietnam...