Word: alienating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Persons and Places, by George Santayana, is the famed philosopher's unfinished autobiography. It tells of his boyhood in Spain and the tragic loneliness of his Spanish family in alien Boston, with a very brief account of his years at Harvard-a stoic recital of intellectual hardships written with epicurean felicity...
...Tokyo-born Henry Ebihara, 24, became the first to jump at a brand-new War Department ruling permitting alien Japanese to enlist in the U.S. Army. Ebihara, whose younger brothers & sisters are all citizens, was brought to the U.S. at the age of two. A Cleveland war-plant worker, he had asked both Franklin Roosevelt and War Secretary Stimson for a chance to fight. Said he: "My people are Americans, even though I was born in Japan and can't be a citizen because my skin is yellow. This war isn't one race against another...
...shore where the stiff white crosses mark a design for eternity, And the infantry of sleep is forever enrolled in silence, And the lives of men are but numbers, and an alien wind Comes up to the beaches, caressing The fallen sons of men of a distant country: Here, at last, the meaning and truth of freedom Opens, unsealed, before the eyes of the nations; . . . Here in the name of freedom all have been gathered Into the perfect union of purposes disunited- A brotherhood of men in the arms of death Who were never aware, in life, that they were...
...salient point about China's coming democracy," continued the Oriental geographer," is that in China for long ages past sound historical and philosophical foundations have already been laid. The doctrines of historical materialism and class struggle are not only alien but also repugnant to the Chinese mind...
Raissa Irene Berkman Browder, Russian-born wife of U.S.-born Communist Earl Browder, finally became a legitimate alien immigrant eligible for U.S. citizenship, thus ending a four-year tug of technicalities over her illegal entry from Canada in 1933. The benevolent cooperation of immigration and consular officials ended her long dispute over her deportation (never enforced) by allowing her to re-enter the U.S. from Canada with a legally stamped visa...