Word: outcaste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...majority thought ads interesting, although too emotional and not factual enough. Only 17% thought advertising prose "silly." But more than half thought advertising was often in bad taste. They objected to detailed references to bodily functions, ads with the gossip theme (the "careless" beauty who becomes a social outcast) and sexy illustrations (44% would completely ban the nude or semi-nude...
...normally red-blooded Harvard men, the University authorities have undertaken an extensive research into the psychology of gates. Gates, normal gates, are generally quite cooperative and sociable people, opening at the slightest touch. But the Wigglesworth gate is a black sheep among gates, his unhappy life as an outcast obviously due to an abnormal mind. Further research has determined the cause of his twisted character to be a midnight accident with a heavy truck gone berserk. Misshapen and bitter Wigglesworth swore to close the Yard to all suspicious characters after dark. At last the mystery of Harvard's iron curtain...
...Clowns are the world's incompetents. They are bound to the wheel of incompetence or they cease to be clowns. Chaplin once, in The Gold Rush, broke the underlying significance of his role and spoiled a great film. He forgot Chariot the outcast to become a millionaire and marry the girl, like any John Gilbert or Ronald Colman. Clowns cannot possibly stoop to such romance. They are, in essence, super realists . . . tragedians in disguise. Their endings are happy for everyone but themselves...
...this, of course, was done with the best of motives. As Outcast Dunne wandered through the cold capitalist world in his declining years, he would serve as a horrible example to countless potential deviationists, Trotskyites, Browderites, sectarians, bourgeois reformists, diversionists, factionalist-saboteurs and others contemplating sin. Thus he would, in effect, continue to serve the Party...
Mother Russia clucked to her long-outcast brood in China. Thousands of White Russians, who have been stateless and scattered from Shanghai to Sinkiang since the Red Revolution, were suddenly offered Soviet citizenship. To return to the maternal wing, they had only to apply at the nearest Russian consulate, pay an 11-ruble fee, submit passport photos, answer a few routine questions...