Word: pariahization
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...refusal to be any party's dog made a political pariah of him and a near pauper (he was unable at the height of his powers to get more than a $60 advance for a book). Doubtless today he would be equally unpopular for pointing out the moral obliquity of those doves on Viet Nam who became hungry hawks in the Israeli-Arab...
...rejoins him to share his life. He still cannot quit. In the camera's last view he has completed his heist, and is sitting on a train with satchels full of loot. Before the viewer's eyes he slips from youth to middle age, a pathetic pariah whose luxurious tastes cannot disguise his barren obsession...
They have insisted, therefore, on treating the East German regime as a pariah and its leaders as outlaws. They still refuse to speak of "the German Democratic Republic," and refer only to "East Germany" or the "Soviet zone." In 1953 the Eastern city of Chemnitz was renamed Karl Marx Stadt, yet this change is still not acknowledged in the West. The West Germans have made use of television broadcasts which can be received in the East to propagandize against the Communist government...
...JAPAN, though Asia's most modern nation, has two despised minorities. Members of the pariah Eta caste are scorned because their impoverished ancestors were forced to perform the most degrading tasks-including the clearing of corpses from samurai battlefields. Etas perennially try to "pass" into respectable society, often commit suicide if caught. The 600,000 Koreans in Japan are called "senjin," the Nipponese equivalent of nigger. Japanese look down on them because Japan ruled Korea as a slave state for 35 years. In Author Kobo Abe's celebrated novel, Woman in the Dunes, one character, a socialist, notes...
...rapid, but at every step he learns that the most corrupting of all the illusions of power is the one that runs, "If there weren't people with a certain amount of conscience in responsible positions things would be even worse." He quits in protest, to live the pariah life of a "former party member" as a news vendor and steelworker; his experience comes full circle when he is picked up by the security police and imprisoned in a slave-labor camp...