Word: friendless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Williams' contention that whenever government infringes on civil rights "it begins with the weak and the friendless, or the scorned and the degraded, or the nonconformist and the unorthodox." Of the major civil liberties cases that have reached the U.S. Supreme Court in the past decade, most of the defendants "have been accused of murder, rape, arson, narcotics offenses, bootlegging and membership in the Communist Party...
...more important reason for Barak's ouster is that he enjoyed a personal following inside the party, unlike the friendless and ruthless Novotny. Furthermore, Barak was Czechoslovakia's only ranking Red leader untainted by a Stalinist past, and he probably advocated genuine destalinization. Obviously, if real destalinization had swept Czechoslovakia, Novotny-not Barak-would have been the first to fall...
...death of her domineering mother. The classical relationship--outer docility, inner rebelliousness, and subconscious hatred--takes shape in a series of fragmentary flashbacks which also illuminate Josephine's lonely life as an Oxford undergraduate. There are suggestions of an Electra complex and clear indications of sexual naivete and repression. Friendless and loveless, so far Josephine might be only a potential romantic heroine or an interesting, if almost too typical, psychoanalytic case study...
Communist leaders from the West quickly joined the chorus. But Chou En-lai was not totally friendless in the Palace of Congresses. North Viet Nam's wisp-bearded Ho Chih Minh and North Korea's chunky Kim II Sung refused to join Khrushchev in condemning Red China by denouncing Albania...
...loveless and friendless, the S-Man completes his "lonely odyssey." Deadpanned and often deadeyed, Maschler and Raphael offer a devastating if somewhat fanciful critique of modern non-ethics. The only overt moral judgment is in the pseudonym itself, with its implication that the S-Man is his brother's killer...