Word: alienation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...persuades Leyton to pay half the rent on a seedy flat, uses it to enjoy Leyton's girl friend (Jennifer Hilary) and finally seduces Leyton's divorced mother (Jennifer Jones). Shortly afterward, The Idol explodes with the kind of gut-clutching Greek passion that seems altogether alien to the cool contemporary scene set forth in the rest of the picture...
...ambivalent feeling: the spectators seem to assume that the marchers felt superior to everyone else; the natural response were constant taunts of "scum." Nor, in many cases, did the marchers' response dispel initial impressions. The quiet, "let's be reasonable, "can't we talk about this" approach was simply alien and frustrating...
...charges were dismissed. Pressed for more details, the Manhattan building-maintenance man, who had been living in the U.S. for eight years, revealed his assorted relations with both sexes since the age of 14. As a result, Boutilier was ordered deported. Reason: the 1952 Immigration Act bars any alien with a "psychopathic personality...
...just as close to the people, Feisal holds a daily majlis (assembly) and invites everyone-from the richest merchant to the scruffiest Bedouin-to come and get his gripes off his chest. "We believe," says Feisal, "that we represent democracy in its highest form, though its structure may be alien to Western ways...
...same length of time, in the same year and at the same hour . . . and, at regular intervals, all alike, in the same rigid groups, performed precisely the same practical exercises, attended the same quizzes and submitted to the same monthly, semi-annual and annual examinations. Anything more alien to the spirit of scientific or modern medicine or to University life could hardly be contrived...