Word: pariah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bedside scenes. Heloise and Abelard, separated for life, long for each other and finally share a grave; Byron, fair, fattish and 40, dies of fever at Missolonghi; Goethe walks through the night to one of his many assignations; Oscar Wilde, under his enforced pseudonym of Sebastian Melmoth, dies a pariah at the Hotel d'Alsace in Paris; George Sand and Alfred de Musset kiss and wrangle; Tolstoy, in his last illness, flees his troublesome wife and dies on a hard bench in the railway station at Astapovo...
...classic shades of Milton's "Samson Agonistes" and Saint-Saens' "Samson and Delilah" will have a difficult time adjusting themselves to the ribald ghosts of this most recent characterization of the deliverer of the children of Israel. In fact, "Samson" stands in a fair way to be a literary pariah because of its uncompromising frankness and defiance of the literary code of ethics. If someone questions the ethical importance of the modern novel, the least any reader can say is that Mr. Washburn displays a diabolical clever less in the thin veneer of coarseness he spreads over his famous plot...
...object to the "Professional Tutor' (why so called? Tutors in Harvard College are equally professional and, in many cases, quite as efficient) solely on one ground--his rates are exorhitant. His services are acknowledged to be of great value and often essential; his prices alone mark him as a Pariah...
...discover great spaces in one of that newspaper's last week's editions given over to Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson. To orthodox Christian Scientists Mrs. Stetson, for 35 years the close friend and co-worker of Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, has been a renegade, a pariah. In 1909 they expelled her from their church, because they, considered her extensions of their Leader's teachings subversive to those theories. Since then she has been a many-barbed thorn in their flesh, and lately, since radio broadcasting has become an agency of heterodox persuasiveness, she has operated WHAP...
...clubs of various sorts. To dwell on the small part played by most clubs, meaning clubs so titled and also fraternities, as factors in gradations in the Harvard social scale is aphoristic. Every one, including both club men and non-club men, realizes that one is not a pariah because he does or does not belong to a club, or because he belongs to a club the rank of which might somehow be considered lower than another. The Report of the Harvard Student Council Committee on Undergraduate Clubs is, therefore, advisable only in one respect--and that is the light...