Word: pariahization
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According to one Faculty member, Kissinger deliberately spread the impression in Washington after May that "Harvard would never ask him back and was treating him like a pariah." Kissinger's purpose in doing this, he said, was to discredit the professors who had criticized him and to gain political mileage among Washington Republicans who would regard a snub by Harvard professors as a sign of status and reliability...
Naturally, Stone has been labeled a maverick, muckraker, Cassandra, curmudgeon, gadfly and guerrilla. All of which are pretty respectable terms these days. At 63, "I've graduated from being a pariah to a character," Stone says with a kind of inverse pride. "If I last long enough, I'll have a certain amount of credibility and weight." Politically, he considers himself to be just about what a leading adversary, Spiro Agnew, says he is: a well-ripened radic-lib. "I was a New Lefty before there was a New Left," he brags...
...Saint or Pariah. Abruptly, the letter made Hickel a sort of Establishment saint to many students and a pariah at the White House. Nixon did not object to the criticism, but to the fact that it was leaked to the press even before it arrived in the Oval Office. Says one White House aide: "The President thought it was an effort to embarrass him personally, and he never got over it. He never trusted the man after that...
...coalition of labor, liberals, East Texas blue-collar workers, blacks and Mexican Americans. This formula has kept him in the Senate for 13 years. Son of an East Texas farmer, the rural-oriented Yarborough is folksy and stubborn. Probably the South's most liberal Senator, he is a pariah among the state's conservative oil, banking and commercial interests. Recently he infuriated some of his backers by voting against the Supreme Court nomination of a Southerner, G. Harrold Carswell, and thereby became a major Republican target in their drive to take over the Senate...
...Mademoiselle Pariah...