Word: outcaste
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...first chapter, Marian is faced with an exciting prospect—the possibility of friendship with another outcast of the Norton School, Val Boyd. Val’s parents flit about the world while leaving Val with a caretaker in the Village, and so she, like Marian, feels fatherless. Val is also ostracized at Norton, because she leaves school early each day and all the other girls know that she visits a psychoanalyst in the afternoons. To them, she seems neurotic and strange...
While most of the characters are fully fleshed out, there are a few whom serve merely functional purposes, such as the New York Times reporter. Operating off simple motivations—resentment and anger at having been a prep school outcast herself—this character does not possess any real layers or depth of feeling...
...respect, and should be shown none. Rather, it should not be allowed even the barest tatters of international legitimacy, and should be excoriated, openly mocked, humiliated, and systematically excluded from even the most basic functionings of the international system until it is universally recognized as the pariah and outcast it truly...
...high school with only one cheerleader and a social outcast who writes rock songs in his spare time, ruled by the student who represents America in the model U.N. No, it’s not a Wes Anderson film, it’s the video for “Sixteen Military Wives” by The Decemberists...
...Harvard’s athletic spirit (or lack thereof): I’m thankful that not liking to watch college sports does not make me an outcast, and that only going into the stadium for the last 10 minutes of the Harvard-Yale game was perfectly acceptable. If I had stayed at UCLA, I’d probably already be standing in line to get seats for the USC game this Saturday, and I’d probably have to learn enough about football to understand what was happening when I actually sat and watched the game instead of passing...