Word: alienment
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...Today, with many young people returning to religion as they start searching for their own identities, faith is becoming the difference that's most often pointed out. I'm not just a black guy or an Arab anymore; I'm a Muslim. And that's a code word for alien, someone who's determined...
Arthur Golden's 1997 best seller, Memoirs of a Geisha, enticed readers with its authoritative evocation of an alien, exotic world, one in which women served men less with sexual favors than by creating a simulacrum of the feminine ideal. But the book's real pull was its take on the Cinderella story, with Sayuri as the young heroine, Mameha as the fairy godmother, Hatsumomo as the evil stepmother and the Chairman, a powerful client of the geishas, as Sayuri's prince charming...
...once a collectivist not always a collectivist. Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, a professor of globalization and education at New York University, has been following 400 families that immigrated to the U.S. from Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Many hailed from villages where the American culture of competition is alien, but once they got here, they changed fast...
...Revenge of the Sith,” one thing was sure: McCallum is no Public Relations mouthpiece, smarmily spewing sound-bytes and industry propaganda.He sounds genuinely reverent when he recalls first seeing that legendary shot from the first Star Wars film, where protagonist Luke Skywalker gazes at an alien sunset: “It’s a totally nonverbal moment,” he says, “it’s just two suns and this young kid’s face, and you can see in it the yearning of every boy or girl...
...when a Harvard alumnus expressed “utter disgust” about the amount of Jews on the Harvard campus to then-President Abbot Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, Lowell replied that he “had foreseen the peril of having too large a number of an alien race and had tried to prevent it.” While Lowell’s overhaul of the admissions system discriminated against Jewish applicants at the time, the principles he advocated have ultimately led to a more diverse College body, and today give us a useful framework for understanding...