Word: alienness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theaters around the U.S. on May 21, and that is not a millisecond too soon for those children, everybody under the age of 90, who have been waiting since 1977 to find out what happens next. Three expensive science fiction films-Star Trek, The Black Hole and Alien-have opened in the past year, but none has claimed the public's affection like the adventure fantasy of Producer-Creator George Lucas. The question now is: Can he do it again...
Through these interviews, we learn of many different types of frustration. Many Black students at Yale express frustration because they feel "alone and alienated" and experience "a conflict between self and society." They must either deny their identity to fit in, "play the Joe-college-fool role," or remain isolated because "people at least on this campus refuse to deal with you," one students says. Rivers, who--in every way--is alien to the largely middle-class Black community on the Yale campus, is also frustrated with the Black students. "People weren't willing to think critically about anything...
...Today, although many of us find worth in participating in mainstream institutions, we typically discover these institutions to be Eurocentric, insensitive to our cultural backgrounds, irrelevant to our interests, unsympathethic to our needs, and void of an understanding of and interest in our histories-in short, historically and currently alien and alienating...
...other educational and cultural activities. The Third World Center recognizes the need to provide peer and career counseling for Third World students, to improve existing non-academic services, such as OCS-OCL, the Freshman Dean's Office, and UHS. Most of all, the Third World Center establishes a non-alien, broad-based context for Third World students to interact as legitimate members of the Harvard community. The Third World Center can have only a beneficial effect on the performance and participation of Third World students at Harvard University...
Because of his newspaper's "moderate" standpoint, Shah maintains, his daily is not likely to run afoul of the law. He regards the government's "code of conduct" as necessary to prevent papers expressing foreign views from eroding the stability of the monarchy. "Because alien resources are at their disposal," he says, "if you give them absolute freedom, are they going to have objective considerations without alien social and political bias dominating their news? Ninety-eight per cent of the people subscribe to the two symbols of Nepal: our monarchy and independent constitution. The remaining two per cent...