Word: alienations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then Walter Lippmann, high priest of liberal Democratic pundits, all but excommunicated Goldwater from the G.O.P. Goldwater, said Lippmann, probably will be refused the nomination because his "philosophy is radically opposed to the central traditions of the Republican Party, and is wholly alien to the moderate and conservative character of the American party system...
...force of energy" that swings from love to hate in seconds, they drive teachers batty. Most teachers aim to tame them by putting "your foot on their neck," and by spooning out futilely alien education from pap-filled primers that extol civilized white virtues. As a result, Maori kids tend to hate reading, fall behind in school, and wind up being labeled "stupid." It is just such frustration (or repression), argues Teacher, that leads some Maoris to become neurotics, brawlers, defeatists and alcoholics...
...Alien Waterfront. Mrs. Kennedy and her advisers decided to restrict acquisitions of paintings and sculptures to Americana. Under the criteria laid down, each work should ideally be by a U.S. artist and of a U.S. subject, and related in some way to the White House or the presidency, or at least to some sector of the Federal Government. But the selection committee has made exceptions to include a few foreign paintings of U.S. subjects and U.S. paintings of foreign subjects. The James McNeill Whistler oil of London's waterfront was chosen because it is a great Whistler. Scottish Painter...
When a final U.S. court decision declares an alien subject to extradition, the country that wants him has to remove him from the U.S. within two months, or else the ruling lapses and a whole new proceeding must begin. For P.J., the two-month clock began ticking in mid-June, when the Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal. Last week, with the deadline nearing, P.J.'s lawyers tried to delay his departure by taking advantage of his involvement in various unfinished lawsuits. Among P.J.'s down-to-the-deadline legal troubles was a paternity suit brought...
...paid for the abandonment of the rustic simplicity of a bygone age, a toll to be exacted for the convenience of the automobile and the pleasures of the cigarette." Even doctors dream of some remote part of Africa or Asia, "where, removed from the madding appurtenances of an alien technology, the inhabitants live out their idyllic, cancer-free lives...