Word: alienates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a truly revolutionary liberation force, the United States-in spite of all the military machinery at its disposal-could reach no understanding or mutual trust; her outlook, her diplomacy, her negotiating language were all alien to such a force. And in the absence of common ground, the only way to draw an ideological renegade down to one's level was with the ever-increasing threat and use of force...
...come in, and it is like Americans or North Vietnamese coming into the country. In Secretary McNamara's language, it is "a wholly different war." On most university campuses the tradition of "conservatives" on both sides-the non-negotiators on both sides-is that there should not be any alien infiltrators or occupiers. The North Vietnamese must go home, the Americans must go home, the police must stay away, the Berkeley veterans have no business here, the French must stay out, the welfare mothers must stay out, the federal government must stay out, Stokeley Carmichael must stay...
...struggle, comfortable in the company of proud men, an I.R.A. volunteer often lives a life not so much of denial as dedication, a laic pilgrim on the road to the Republic, a knight templar justified in the use of his sword. This atmosphere of sanctity and violence is alien to the Saxon world...
...rich man and the nonworking girl. A renaissance of bathrooms and bathing seems to be in progress rivaling the innovations of the most inventive Roman voluptuaries. This in a country where Benjamin Franklin was considered a radical for his habit of tubbing regularly, where bathing was once considered so alien that Pennsylvania, Ohio and Virginia debated legislation outlawing the practice as dangerous to health. It is also a country where the President's house had no bathtub at all until...
...center is the experience of a growing women's consciousness. To begin with, our women's consciousness comes from our experience of life in Amerika, which has been a continual process of self-destruction through submission to repression and oppression. We have been alienated from our bodies and afraid of our minds. From the beginning, with our dolls and the frilly dresses we were told to keep clean, we have learned-they have told us-that it's a man's world and we had better learn to keep in our places (in the home, in bed). And they kept...