Word: outcaste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...needs to wrestle with Rank for the British box office. He promptly made plans to star Jennifer Jones in a Technicolor version of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Gregory Peck in a Technicolored Tale of Two Cities. Also on the schedule: Joseph Conrad's An Outcast of the Islands, Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point, Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, and a new unpublished novel, The Third Man, by Graham Greene...
...must first of all be asserted that the freedom to do as you wish at Harvard--the freedom to work as you will and to relax as you will without the fear of becoming the sort of outcast that is always the unfortunate by-product of cohesive groups--this freedom cannot be abridged without injuring one of the College's oldest and best attributes. William James, writing about Harvard students in the first decade of this century, said that "When they come to Harvard, it is not primarily because she is a club. It is because they have heard...
Some nice but undeveloped situations and lines fight a draw with the rather childish performance of the Boy & Girl. Best thing in the show: Humphrey Bo-gart-appearing briefly in a movie the girl goes to-as an outcast father, weeping against a rainy windowpane...
...years thereafter, Yoder was "mited." He was a social outcast. No Amish cobbler would fix his shoes. Even his brother Dan could not eat with him. When he was out threshing, he had to take his meals in barns or cellars-alone. Said he: "It was like feeding the dog out of a dishpan. And I felt like a whipped dog." Once Bishop Helmuth tried to force him off the 50-acre farm in Paint Township that Andrew works with his father. Bespectacled, meek-mild-looking Andrew pulled the Bishop out of his house by the seven-inch hairs...
...first, in school, she had been repulsed by his rude speech, the sinister black patch over his missing eye, the squalor of the wharfside shack where his husbandless mother carelessly raised her children, the fixed lines of bitterness which came from learning early that he was a social outcast. Later Eliza's fear became curiosity; and as she grew older, sympathy...