Word: misfits
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...simplest level, Carrie is a rendering of that familiar fairy tale of the adolescent misfit-misunderstood and cruelly treated by a parent, despised and tormented by her peers-who finally turns on them all and gains dramatic, and emotionally satisfying, revenge...
...series of unconvincing fictional stereotypes), Medved and Wallechinsky went back to the people themselves. They interviewed 30 people they had known in high school, 30 people they felt formed a cross-section of their socially--though by no means economically--stratified class. The intellectual, the cheerleader, the social misfit: Medved and Wallechinsky tried to include a little of everything, filling out a picture of the group with profiles of the individuals who composed it, giving depth to their hypotheses about the rebellion of the late...
...simply makes that alienation more obvious. Ishikawa suggests it may be especially different for students from traditional cultures to return; she says she worries about going back to a world where women are expected to be subdued, and where arranged marriages are still customary. Nimgade speaks of being a misfit in both societies. "If only," she says, "one could take the good things from both cultures and the imperfections from neither...
Saints normally are not normal. "A saint has to be a misfit," says University of Chicago Church Historian Martin Marty. "A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary." Father Carroll Stuhmueller of Chicago's Catholic Theological Union agrees. "Saints tend to be on the outer edge, where the maniacs, the idiots and the geniuses are. They break the mold." Not all accept that description of a saint. Hewing closer to Protestant tradition. Church Historian Jane Douglas of California's School of Theology at Claremont insists that saints are no more, no less...
...Joseph Fields. Replete with references to people like Felix Frankfurter and Charles C. Dawes and now-defunct New Deal agencies like the NRA, Wonderful Town is in some ways a period piece. Fortunately, most of the play's humor derives from classic comic situations--the intelligent girl as social misfit, the pretty girl surrounded by suitors trying to out do each other to win her favor. Some of the Chodorov and Fields jokes are pretty unfunny now--Ruth is asked twice whether she strips, because "We're always looking for new faces"--but then again, they probably weren't very...