Word: pariahization
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...Pariah & Servant. The richest of York's moneylenders was Baruch of Northstreet. He flaunted his wealth on his bejeweled fingers, had no qualms about cheating the Christians who kept him a social pariah. But Baruch's son Abram was his father's despair. A failed rabbi, Abram despised Baruch's vanity and usury, refused to learn the lending trade, struck up a friendship and a religious dialogue with a simple Catholic monk. To the consternation of his parents. Abram also gradually fell in love with Bett, their poor Christian servant girl...
...Never the Twain." Clem is not just a defeated bum, but what Dr. Fiedler likes to call "the questing lover, surrogate for the artist . . . projected as a pariah, an Ishmael." He is linked in a love-hate relation with his nonidentical twin Mark...
Eliot can find small ground for doing so until a Roman Catholic physicist, who detests everything Howard stands for, uncovers new evidence of the pariah's probable innocence and rallies Eliot and a few conscience-nagged colleagues with a cry of "justice for the enemy." As he rounds up the necessary votes for retrial, Eliot encounters the various motives-sly, cynical, stoic, self-serving, selflessly decent-that sway all would-be judges of men. How all-too-human such motives can be is suggested with delightfully doddering comic precision by Edward Atienza as an ancient Senior Fellow who believes...
...Country Club, the Golf Writers Association of America trotted out the new Walter Hagen Trophy, which is to be awarded yearly for "distinguished contribution to the furtherance of Anglo-American golf" in the name of the longtime lion of the links who first won respectability for the once sub-pariah professional. When the selection committee finally chose the award's first winner, it turned out to be Hagen himself, now 68 and an executive of the Wilson Sporting Goods...
...leaving Tunis last week, Belkacem Krim was agreeably surprised when representatives of the U.S. and British embassies were at the airport to see him off, thus reflecting the F.L.N.'s swift change from a pariah to a recognized organization. On landing in Geneva, Belkacem was welcomed by the ambassadors of Communist China and North Vietnam. Between these extremes lies the F.L.N.'s choice for the future...