Word: alienation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hugo Black revived a legal argument that is as old as the Constitution itself. Does the Bill of Rights grant an absolute and inalienable freedom of speech and press, or may such rights be restricted for the common good? For nearly 120 years-from 1798, when the short-lived Alien and Sedition Acts* were added to the federal statutes, until 1917, when the wartime Espionage Act prohibited statements that might aid the enemy -Congress enacted no laws at all directly abridging the citizen's right to speak and print whatever he chose. But no one proposed that the Bill...
...advisers have suddenly appeared to channel the student's college experience. Before she was free to do what she wished with her education; now she is being pushed to use it in some way that will provide tangible results according to a scale of achievement she may find alien and insufficient. Not that Mrs. Bunting wants it this way: she would be the first to speak out in favor of flexibility and broad standards of judgment. But for the moment she is offering her students little choice; those who do not care to define women's education in her terms...
Serene Monégasque. America's second-front First Lady, Princess Grace of Monaco, has put her matchless monogram on an alien environment. Since her 1956 abdication as queen of the M-G-M lot (185 acres) in order to reign over Monaco (368 acres), Grace has made a home of the old, 200-room palais princier, which had fallen into disuse when Prince Rainier lived in bachelor discomfort on Cap Ferrat. Redecorated, replumbed and filled with flowers, the hilltop palais princier echoes again to the laughter of frequent guests and splashings from the heated pool that Grace built...
...Stravinsky, of all living composers, is the one who can least stand still; and today, after moving through the classicist waters of Pidcinella and Oedipus Rex, he has turned to the serial technique. He is as adept as ever at what he once regarded as the discipline of an alien school...
Posing as "an alien curiosity" from outer space, Romains reports on the earth as it might appear to a canny Martian...