Word: alienness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...alpine team competes in the slalom and giant slalom at races (the famous downhill, sensationalized by national television, is not run due to unkind insurance premiums. Nordic jumping has fallen to the same fate). Seniors Rana Dershowitz and Andrew "The Alien" Holleman captain a strong alpine contingency. John Laserte returns from Vermont to coach for yet another year (the fella just won't go away) and Johnathan L. Shefftz KSG '92 stands close by his side, serving as assistant coach...
This is especially true of freshmen, who may find such groups as the Bisexual Gay and Lesbian Students Association (BGLSA) new and alien to begin with. Reason--above all, bad reason--is best answered by argument, not mass shouting...