Word: alienation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are scholars who have called the book "the most beautiful in the world." But Londoners will not have much time to judge for themselves. After a few weeks on alien soil, Ireland's great treasure will return to its well-guarded place in the library at Trinity. There each day a new page will be turned for the benefit of the thousands who, decade after decade, go to see the Book of Kells...
Sergei Prokofiev was one of seven Soviet composers (among the others: Khachaturian and Shostakovich) denounced in 1948 "for formalistic and anti-democratic tendencies in music which are alien to the Soviet people." Confessing his "guilt," the great Russian composer promised to mend his Western ways in his next opera, which proved to be his last. Ten months later. The Story of a Real Man was submitted to the Composers' Union, was promptly banned as "anti-melodious" and still reeking with "the decay of bourgeois culture." Now, long after his official post-Stalin rehabilitation and seven years after his death...
...commonwealth in the long chronicle of church and state, they have not only endured in peace (by and large) but also they have greatly nourished their common society. Not that they have understood or loved one another. A great many Americans still see their Catholic fellow citizens as vaguely alien and as narrow-minded servants of an absolutist theology. Because their church is vast diverse and all too easily regarded as monolithic," American Catholics are often taxed with everything from Spanish Catholic intolerance to Italian Catholic cynicism, from Legion of Decency censorship to neo-Thomist philosophy...
...readers of TIME should be very grateful for your perceptive and courageous article on "The Death Industry." I am reminded with real sorrow of the thousands of our most precious young men who died and were buried in alien lands with no better than an Army blanket to wrap them in. Why are we so much better than they, or have a better future, because we lie in moisture-proof vaults in mahogany caskets...
...very long ago, it was in our power to crush them with a rod of iron, but we forbore in foolish charity and a mistaken belief that, after all, they were men like ourselves. Nothing human-even from New Haven-was alien to us, we said. Overlooking clear signs that the Yalies were indeed what our fathers said they were, we worked hard at trying to understand them. We met them. We talked with them. Compulsive do-gooders among us even read the Yalie Daily. Then came the election and the realization that...