Word: alienations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprisingly, her hero, Matthew Pryar (Eton and Oxford), contributes some British one-upmanship to the stock drama of poet and pedant. He finds that all is alien corn on the Cobb campus, is daunted to learn that the faculty does not drink and dines on unspiced food at 6:30 p.m. Pryar is one among seven visiting fellows. Each of them is a distinguished specialist in some recondite field, or rather is a monomaniac locked inside an ever-narrowing preoccupation -Andean Spiolus, patristic hagiography among the Slavs, Emily Dickinson or whatever. These learned freaks (the Slavonic specialist is a midget...
...spartan opulence designed as much to save the hotel money as to attract the clients. In countries where there is no previous standard of hotel excellence, Hiltons are oases; in such old cities as Rome, London or Paris, they are apt to seem a little off-key and alien...
...regular Harvard or Radcliffe student, this restriction is irksome. Accustomed to dropping in on interesting lectures or auditing a course steadily, he finds a Harvard with closed doors somewhat strange and alien. The ambitious student from any college, who views the summer months as an ideal time for a relaxed pursuit of a variety of academic interests, finds in the auditing rules substantial financial barriers...
...Chinese still sneer at the Russians as "Big Noses" and consider them as alien as other Westerners. Moreover, the population pressure along the Sino-Soviet border is a constant menace to Moscow; by 1980 there will be 1 billion Chinese. When a British visitor suggested to Khrushchev not long ago that the Chinese masses would eventually explode north into Siberia or south to Australia, Nikita replied grimly: "I'm in favor of Australia...
Unleashing the Sleuths. Palmer, who had ambitions to succeed Wilson as President, finally did something. He ordered a roundup of suspicious aliens, a project partly supervised by the young J. Edgar Hoover. Justice Department agents zealously invaded homes and made many arrests without warrants. They pulled people out of pool halls and other public places and jammed them into overcrowded detention centers. When they raided meeting halls, they sometimes did not bother to find out who was meeting; in one instance, they jailed 39 people who were meeting to form a bakery cooperative. Since the Sedition Act of 1918 allowed...