Word: alienness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with derision or hostility to gays, hoping this will reaffirm their heterosexuality. But most simply try to crowd any thought of homosexuality out of their heads. That creates another source of hostility to gays: ignorance. Shutting homosexuality out of our world fosters the same fear and mistrust of the alien that has always led people to hate each other. Our prejudice against gay people will linger as long as they are unfamiliar. Only free interaction with them will show us that they are people just like ourselves...
...current status of minorities at Harvard: "For the moment, we must acknowledge that many of our Blacks and Hispanics feel much like alien guests in a strange house...
...have the tough job of going down there and taking from them on their courts, in front of their crowd," said coach Dave Fish. But he added that the team, despite having to play on alien ground, is thoroughly prepared...
...entering into diplomatic relationships. It was one thing to see how immediately valuable the friendship of the Shah was to American military and economic interests. But it was quite another not to see how and why the Shah's modernizing reforms, his agrarian reform in particular, were alien and menacing to an ancient religious culture. Not for nothing did those millions of Iranians demonstrate and strike in the schools, factories and oilfields. The U.S. refused to recognize the depths of the Iranian culture as a whole. That made it not only blind to the coming of the revolution...
When the bloom was on the roads, the American who would not-or could not-drive a car was dismissed as a sponger or a dimwit, doomed to a life of dependence on alien wheels and, quite likely, celibacy. The nondriver was a rara Avis (though he could not rent one), akin to the kiwi, a bird that cannot fly. In a country that relies so heavily on the auto for its bread and butter and most of its honey, he was seen and often scorned as a kind of self-decreed cripple...