Word: outcaste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outcast Indian girl who is tormented and finally stoned by her self-righteous neighbors, Delores Del Rio is beautiful. She has been deglamorized to the point of allowing a mole on the side of her nose to be photographed, but even in Hollywood her well-modeled face was never lovelier or more expressive. Visual beauty is the best thing about Portrait of Maria, which is the sort of picture that looks better in the lobby stills than it does on the screen. There are handsome shots of Lake Xochimilco and some well-photographed, well-directed crowd scenes. The picture...
...drunkard is not "a moral and social outcast" - though many church people have taken that unchristian view, says the Rev. Alson J. Smith of St. Paul's Method ist Church, Brooklyn. An alcoholic is "someone who could be helped and [is] worth helping...
Paradise of Normalcy. In lonely adolescence, Trollope had spent hours day dreaming. But the stories he had fashioned in his mind had not been extravagant dreams of glory. Years of feeling himself an outcast had led him to picture paradise as a place in which everything was average and normal. Consequently, his dreams (and later, his novels) were built out of the most everyday events, moved precisely in the tempo of everyday Victorian life, and partook of that era's utter confidence in its own continuation...
Like many another schoolboy outcast, flop-footed, inky-fingered "Bop" La Farge plugged his dogged way out of pariahdom. In his third year he tackled another bully, finished him off with an astonished "30 seconds of deliriously swinging one haymaker after another." In the Fourth Form he was a star high-jumper despite heckling classmates who chanted "Bop-Bop-Bop" at the side of the jumping pit. By graduation he had attained respectability with the kudos of a letterman in both football and crew...
...Patriotic, Avoid Friction." To some, the final insult to Negro pride is the appearance of the European refugee, who is free to vote, eat where he wishes, and attain full citizenship, while the native-born Negro, often of old U.S. stock, must remain a semi outcast...