Word: alienates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alien Anomaly. Freeport is caught up in a bitter, smoldering dispute between its predominantly white developers and the Bahamas' first black government, located 130 miles away in Nassau. For tourists, the feud all too often translates into rude or grudging service from hotel and restaurant employees. "All the visitor wants is a quiet vacation on the beach with a drink in his hand," a top hotel executive told TIME Correspondent Roger Beardwood. "Instead, he finds himself in on a black power situation." Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling admits that tourist receptions in the Bahamas are less friendly than they...
...great deal about the metamorphosis of Chomsky as a political analyst. In his earlier American Power and the New Mandarins. Chomsky's language was calm, restrained, almost antiseptically reasoned; he was, one feels, especially careful to obey the intellectual ground rules of a political world-view which was otherwise alien and unacceptable to him. In At War With Asia, he rejects that constraint, and his language is less careful, wilder, and in many ways far more moving...
...because it gathers in one convenient place most of what has been said and thought about Pinter. The son of a Jewish tailor, Pinter grew up in the congested, polyglot and intensely familistic world of London's East End. His mastery of English contains elements of a quasi alien's act of assimilative will, an acute tuning of the ear to the language of success and survival...
...Medi-credit" under which the Government would subsidize the purchase of private insurance by low-income families. Nor will the Administration go along with so radical a departure from free-enterprise medicine. It sent HEW Under Secretary John Veneman before the Senate hearings to describe the plan as "alien to our basic traditions," and too expensive as well. According to Veneman, the plan would cost $77 billion a year, much of it at the expense of other programs...
...easy laughs from those classic villains, the know-nothing cab driver and the harried postman. To be sure, the film eventually recognizes its own faults. "We can't reach the working people," concludes one of the crew. But acknowledging blindness does not grant vision; diagnosis is no cure. Alien to the laborers it cannot hope to convince, preacher to the converted, Street Scenes is, in essence, no more than a smoothly edited student film. As such, it must be graded...