Word: alienating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been times, to be sure, when the U.S. majority has pilloried minority dissenters-to say nothing of abolitionists, suffragettes, Indians, Mormons, Irish Catholics, Chinese and Negroes. The U.S. was founded by fervent believers in free expression-who almost immediately ignored their own First Amendment. In 1798, Congress enacted the Alien and Sedition Acts empowering the Federalists to ruthlessly prosecute Republican editors for, among other things, criticizing the Government's undeclared naval war with France. Lincoln did not even consult Congress in 1861, when he suspended the right of habeas corpus for anyone his Government deemed disloyal. During World...
...last Gemulah sings the song of Grofith, a mythical bird who dies with the last note. She dies too, along with her mysterious auditor. It is Agnon's anguished challenge to his own quest: the past is alien, and unrecoverable, and he who seeks it is destined to live in the limbo between the sunset and the dawn...
After a winter of dazzling success in alien waters. Radcliffe swimmers kept the competitive spirit alight in the annual interhouse Championship Swim Meet...
...What's New, Pussycat?, which rang up one of the biggest box-office grosses ever (over $8.3 million) for a comedy movie. Then, in the Japanese-made film What's Up, Tiger Lily?, he collected $75,000 for supplying the dubbed-in dialogue that is totally alien to anything that is happening onscreen. In November, following a performance in the forthcoming Casino Royale, in which he ad-libbed 60% of his lines, he opened his new Broadway play Don't Drink the Water, for which he gets an average weekly royalty check...
...America solely for their hockey ability as representatives of the Ivy League. Cornell's style of play, epitomized in the final by all-star defenseman Harry Orr's major penalty for spearing and all-star forward Doug Ferguson's ejection from the game for fighting, is just as alien to Ivy ideals as the players' origins. Harkness wanted a national title and he got it. I hope Harvard will never permit a coach to get one in the same...