Word: alienation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...source of resistance came from below, in the united hostility of poor youngsters toward the alien intellectualism of mathematics; another kind, the inertia of the school system, sets a ceiling to a teacher's effectiveness from above. On one hand Lowe lamented the unresponsiveness of ninth graders still bafflled by fractions, while on the other he complained about outmoded books and instruction techniques...
Sweat became noticeable on the Harvard bench during the two-mile, as Walt Hewlett started slow and finished slower. The predicted six points for the Crimson vanished into none when Yale's Jeff Sidney, whom Hewiett defeated last week, led a pack of alien runners across the tape ahead of the Crimson sophomore...
...fraud, that he had listed his occupation as real estate when it really was gambling and bootlegging. After that, the Justice Department moved to deport Costello on the theory that two previous convictions for income tax evasion made him vulnerable to a statute that permits the ouster of an alien found guilty of two crimes involving moral turpitude...
Paul Newman is the man who must destroy what we might call BANANA (Bigoted Alien Nemesis Against Nobel Awards). This is a Fascist group intent on forcing a former comrade (now an American Nobel Prize winner) to refuse the award, denounce the United States, and defect to the Fatherland, thus giving the U.S. a bad name and the Fatherland a pile of top-secret scientific information. The scientist refuses and is subsequently kidnaped. An imposter is then substituted and the whole plan is about to succeed when in steps Newman...
...works stand as a crown to the German baroque tradition, and in his early music especially, there is an almost impressionistic reflection of the anarchy and despair that gripped Germany after World War I. He wrote within a range of dark emotions that makes much of his music seem alien and bitter-but it is historically accurate as well...