Word: alienations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though it is difficult to listen to an alien who so frankly divulges our faults, we should not fear her. Perhaps it would do us good to heed her admonitions...
Both Berlins were absorbed in competing culture festivals last week - alien celebrations of the arts, one on each side of the Wall. West Berlin had invited three symphony orchestras to help spotlight the inauguration of its new, $4,000,000 Philharmonic Hall, and East Berlin had theatrical troupes from Moscow and Prague in town to play alongside its own Berliner Ensemble...
...only Swiss newspaper to carry a picture of a wife killer from the town of Langenthal. When the man, gratified by this unaccustomed publicity, turned himself in to Blick, the paper printed his story-to the stern disapproval of the rest of the press. Moved by impulses totally alien to the competition, Blick last winter invited 40 needy children from West Berlin to ski in Valais-and picked up the tab. It asked readers for money to buy beds for aged and improvident Swiss. When readers responded generously, other papers blew their Pfiffe. It was not seemly, they said...
...understand it. For example, when James visits Ellis Island, he charms us with his personal touch ("Let not the unwary, therefore, visit "Ellis Island") and at the same time makes us aware both of our own situation as Americans and of the irony in James's own special half-alien situation. Geismar pays no attention to this aspect of the book...
Aloof & Hostile. The country is completely alien to their experience. It lies in the middle of nowhere: 8,000 miles from the U.S., part of a uvular peninsula jutting into the South China Sea. Everywhere they turn, the U.S. correspondents find obstacles standing in the way of dispassionate reporting. None of them speak the language with any fluency-and their Vietnamese contacts seldom speak English. When possible, they resort to the country's second language-French...