Word: alienations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
According to Dewey, education should relate the world to the life of the growing child. Knowledge had to be "ingested as an alien thing...
...Holy Loch proved to be alien ground, too far from the pacifists' comfortable London hangouts to draw a crowd. Only six demonstrators showed up, equipped with four canoes and two dinghies that they planned to paddle into the Proteus' path. They pitched tents on the harbor shore, set up a 24-hour watch for the Proteus' approach...
...Marines aboard the sinking Bon Homme Richard did indeed capture the British Serapis in a bloody, muzzle-to-muzzle fight. But all of the 137 enlisted men were Frenchmen, in alien uniforms, vagrants recruited by John Paul Jones on the docks of L'Orient...
...find itself playing seven games in as many cities within ten days. As the westernmost team, Los Angeles this season will travel 100,000 miles to play a 79-game schedule. Conspicuous as a herd of giraffes, the N.B.A.'s big men have learned to cope with an alien world of threatening doorframes and ridiculously small chairs. At night they drape their feet over suitcase racks placed at the ends of their Hollywood-style hotel beds. After a game, supper may be a piece of pumpkin pie served on a cardboard plate on the way to the airport...
...enthusiastic young men from the audience will take the floor to demonstrate their own amateur graces. Except for the odd uptown sex maniac or an overeager Greek sailor, the people watch in calm absorption. Small, shirt-sleeved orchestras play in 2/4 or 4/4 time, using guitars, violins, and more alien instruments with names that would open Sesame: the oud, grandfather of the lute; the darbuka, a small drum with the treelike shape of a roemer glass; the def, a low-pitched tambourine. The girls sit quietly with the musicians, wearing prim dresses or plain, secretarial shifts, until it is time...