Word: pariahs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bombs & Bacilli. It was in 1941 that Orano contracted the disease that made him a pariah. Italian troops and officials in Somaliland had run from the British, but Orano persisted in taking a boatload of supplies to hungry leprosy victims in a remote colony. Caught in an air attack along the way. he suffered some 50 superficial wounds from bomb fragments. Ashore, he helped bandage wounded leprosy patients, and the disease-causing Hansen's bacilli entered his own wounds...
...ticking time bomb to supply fictional suspense, and perhaps no writer has ever used the device more successfully than Andrey Biely in St. Petersburg, originally published in Russia in 1913 and now translated into English for the first time. Biely (real name: Boris Bugaiev) died in 1934, a political pariah; like Boris Pasternak, he was a Russian who came to see that revolution often destroys more than it creates...
...Shape of Life. The viewpoint is convincingly Negro; yet Cille, the heroine, is a light-skinned outcast who can see both races with a pariah's eyes. In the novel's collisions between black and white, mockery cuts both ways...
...lights and beer tonight. Somehow the number dwindles to thirty-five as the discouraging hours pass, then six give way and trudge toward Prospect, and another six are placed as a few clubs each make the sacrifice and each consent to admit one lone hundred percenter (there to be pariah or sycophant for who knows how long). Above, in the library, like secret Teutonic Norns, the ICC meets in constant absolutely closed session, omnipotently spinning fate. Below them, twenty-three one hundred percents remain, half of them Jewish. In Valhalla's lofty and concealed recesses, the list is gone over...
These same pronouncements, despite sharply critical reports from Labourites who went to Moscow, continued to stress the need for normal relations with the Soviet state. As Mr. Graubard points out, Labour's initial position as a pariah in domestic politics resembled that of the Bolsheviks in the community of nations. Moreover, they faced a common enemy: "The forces which engineered Khaki elections, and published posters with slogans of 'red menace' attached to gory images, were now involved in creating and ostracizing a foreign 'foe.' The Labour Party's adversary was also Russia's enemy; how sensible, therefore, that the party...