Word: alienation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many Britons have long clucked over the U.S. troubles with segregation. The British, they rather suggest, are above all that. But with rising colored immigration from far-off places, more and more Englishmen find themselves living alongside new neighbors who look frightfully alien. In the first five months of this year, 38,700 immigrants came from the West Indies. India and Pakistan-84% more than the same period last year. There is no legal barrier to immigration from Commonwealth countries. The government, worried by the increase, officially talks of finding a solution "as friendly to these people...
...intolerance got reinforcements too. When a former Congregational chapel on Smethwick's main street was converted into a temple to serve the Indian Sikhs who have recently settled in the town, there were fresh mutterings of alien influences. The Anglican vicar of St. Michael's and All Angels Church lamented in his parish magazine that a building which had long been used for Christian worship was now "being renovated, decorated and adapted as a temple for black people to preach what we have always spoken of as heathen rites...
Next, let's not invoke Chaucer. His Troilus and Criseyde is the greatest long narrative poem in our language, and it is also the source of Shakespeare's lve story. But here too the dramatist radically altered the personalities of Chaucer's characters, and adopted an alien, discursive approach...
...women to trust each other, to behave responsibly toward each other and toward the world, by bringing to pass here and now a way of life that will not have to be 'sold,' a way of life so incomparably superior and happier and more just that the alien virus cannot possibly establish itself within...
...Lower Level. In the second case, the court upheld the long disputed "membership clause" of the Alien Registration (Smith) Act of 1940. Ten years ago, in the Dennis case, the court had sustained the convictions of top Communist Party organizers under the Smith Act. Now it ruled that lower-level members may also be prosecuted...