Word: alienation
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some may fear that the elimination of sponsors will destroy the home-like atmosphere of the Houses. They see the dining hall as a focus for developing House spirit, and they would view unsponsored diners from the outside as an intrusion, a disrupting, alien influence in a tightly knit group of friends. It is a pity that this vision of the Houses squares so poorly with reality. Four hundred undergraduate men hardly constitute a family, even if they do happen to take their meals at Leverett House. New faces from other Houses and other Harvard institutions should...
Wallace Stevens: "In an age when almost everybody sold man and the world short, he never did, but acted as if joy were 'a word of our own,' as if nothing excellent were alien...
...thinking ahead of the best minds of his day. In Einstein's time the geometry of the real world lost its reliability as a frame of reference and became properly a part of physics itself. One can infer from both Newman and Russell that this inversion, an alien notion to most nineteenth-century thinkers was already half-formed in Clifford's mind...
...running start for future hills, and it is no service to them to send them out in a state of tame grayness. All need not win Rhodes Scholarships, but there are many peaks of esteem and accomplishment, even the accomplishment of having at the last seen the initially alien college of your freshman year in something like its full iridescence. We should not produce merely qualified but lively and resilient graduates...
Barnett's "interposition doctrine" is not new. It originated as far back as 1789, an the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions aimed at the Alien & Sedition Acts. The doctrine was based on the assumption that the Constitution is a compact among states who have retained sovereignty. Marshall overthrew that argument in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), declaring that the Constitution was "established in the name of the people," not their state governments...