Word: alienates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alien Notions. Full independence for Papua New Guinea, scheduled for some time around the end of next year, is even more difficult to grasp; it involves such alien notions as defense and foreign affairs, which are now administered by Australia. But the Australians clearly are eager to shed their responsibilities as soon as possible. They inherited Papua from Britain in 1906 and took New Guinea from Germany in World War I, administering it in recent years as a U.N. trustee. Together, the two territories constitute the eastern half of the world's second largest island (after Greenland); the rest...
...taken matters of ecology straight to heart: corpses are deposited all neatly wrapped in plastic bags. Aside from these incidental social observations, the movie concerns Anthony Quinn, as a Mafia don, warring with rival factions over Angel Tompkins, an actress to whom all human emotions save narcissism seem alien. She represents the most unlikely cause for the outbreak of hostilities since the War of Jenkins...
...flirted with the theater in high school and college but had quashed any thoughts of an acting career. "The truth was," he explains, "I was afraid I'd fail. When you're a kid, certain things are out of the question, they're so alien. Ordinary people didn't become actors, especially people from Ossining...
...decreasing student activism, it is difficult to estimate student interest in old fashioned electoral politics. Dormitory-bound students are usually unaware of the real character of Cambridge life--the city extends over two miles in either direction from Harvard Square, while most of The Crimson's readership feels on alien turf if it ranges two blocks beyond Burr Hall to Rindge Tech High School. Harvard's consistent and unneighborly expansion policy has irrevocably altered neighborhood residence patterns and introduced student life into the areas below the Law School, around Radcliffe and in the direction of Peabody Terrace...
Usually, however, the smugglers deliver their man north as promised, and even undertake to find a job for the alien once he has arrived. But for their employment services, the smugglers sometimes demand in addition up to half of a man's salary for his first two months at work. Some smuggling rings also operate decrepit rooming houses and charge a man $35 a week to share a two-room apartment with four others...