Word: alienment
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...Resident Alien, Overseas, Silence of theLambs...
...soil and the skill of its farmers. It has also made some progress toward political freedom: incumbent President Zhelyu Zhelev, chosen in 1990 by the parliament, won the nation's first direct presidential election last month against an opponent who accused him of trying to impose an "alien" system -- a market-oriented democracy. But economic reforms have been introduced only halfheartedly, just enough to cause inflation and rising joblessness. Albania, long isolated even from the rest of the communist world, held democratic elections last year, but its government has been unable to forge any economic system to replace the shattered...
...Gaetano) Talese was born and raised in Ocean City, N.J., a seaside resort founded by teetotaling Methodist ministers who sought a prim and sober alternative to glitzy Atlantic City nearby. Growing up "olive-skinned in a freckle-faced town," young Gay felt himself an alien in Ocean City -- the butt, at parochial school, of ethnic slurs by Irish-American classmates whose brothers served with the American forces liberating Italy during World War II. He even felt somewhat of a foreigner in his own family. His father Joseph, a workaholic tailor and dry cleaner, was strict, austerely religious, often remote...
...distance from his own life increases as the story of Summerchild and Serafin (and Jessel) reaches its crescendo, and the characters and plot of his own story become more and more alien...
...idea that a legal act can be made a crime retrospectively is alien to U.S. constitutional law -- as Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, often termed the conscience of the Republican Party at mid-century, noted in criticizing the Nazi trials. It is a "fundamental principle of American law that a man cannot be tried under an ex post facto statute," said Taft. "About this whole judgment there is the spirit of vengeance, and vengeance is seldom justice." Vengeance is precisely the point for some Germans who have grievances against the East German state. But even if one views...