Word: pariah
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...Russian slave class, as Dallin analyzes it, has three principal divisions: 1) habitual criminals; 2) dethroned bureaucrats; 3) politicals. In the pariah society that suffers a living death behind the barbed wire of the camp's, the criminals are the elite, bureaucrats usually wangle the cushy administrative jobs, political offenders most often are worked to death by a deliberate policy of bloodless liquidations. A political offender need not be a man or woman who wants to toss a bomb at Stalin, but merely one who tells a disrespectful joke about...
Actually, it comes out of Caniff's head. Among cartoonists-fellow members of what he calls "the pariah profession"-he is well liked, but seldom seen. He lives and works (12 to 18 hours a day) on the outer suburban ring of New York City, in a town with the confusing name of New City, N.Y. (pop. 992). Neighbors in the New City intellectual colony include Playwright Maxwell Anderson, Artist Henry Varnum Poor and Author J. P. McEvoy...
Borkman (Victor Jory) had had a vast, almost visionary, lust for power; and to get it, he gave up love. Yet he failed, for all that-he overreached himself, went to prison, embittered his success-worshiping wife, emerged a pariah who for eight years shut himself up, futilely nursing his grandiose dream. When his wife's sister-the woman he loved and should have married-comes, herself dying, to reproach yet try to reshape him, she is too late. Leaving his house with her, Borkman dies of "the cold...
Last week, after 14 months as a sort of pariah of the press, Ed Kennedy won what he regarded as vindication, and in a sense it was. To the Senate, California's Senator Sheridan Downey announced that General Eisenhower had reviewed the case and "removed any bar" to Kennedy's reaccrediting as an Army correspondent. Into the Congressional Record went: 1) a memo from Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, ex-SHAEF chief of staff, which said the Germans had made their Flensburg broadcast under Allied orders; 2) a War Department letter fixing its time as an hour...
...environing evil to share its guilt, though they would suffer its consequences. Perhaps these prisoners, and these children, were the hope of Germany and the world, which could not hope to remain unpoisoned if Germany were to remain forever a septic pool of guilt, retributive justice, a sullen pariah among the nations...