Word: pariahs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even more fascinating is Nixon's semi-demi comeback. Nobody wants any lectures from him yet about public morality, and he still couldn't get elected dogcatcher. But he is no longer a pariah. Reporters from the New York Times, television interviewers from CBS, and TIME too, seek his views on an area where he has expertise, the Soviet Union and China. Discreet in his criticism of Reagan, he seeks for himself a new role as moderate senior statesman...
...illusion to think that no sovereign country will default on its external debt because it would become a pariah in the international financial community. A repudiation of debt could occur as a result of radical political changes, as is possible in lit erally any Latin American country, or geopolitical decisions, as might be the case in Eastern Europe...
...strength of the film, Lithgow's Roberts also succeeds splendidly. Dustin Hoffman has received extensive publicity lately for his female role in the upcoming film Pearlie, but for originality, Lithgow scoops him. In a story about families overly concerned with their own self-preservation, it is Roberta--the social pariah--who is the most consistent source of spirit when danger arises. Roberta also plays "Sir Scum"; she hurdles shrubbery with Garp in a comic pursuit of reckless drivers, outpacing and protecting her friend. In the eerie feminist funeral for Garp's slain mother, where the protagonist must attend in drag...
Prayer has never been prohibited in this nation of many religions. We should not fetter our freedom of religion by mandating Christian public prayer in our schools [May 17]. This will lead only to making the non-Christian child a pariah...
...unfair: Mailer had had the courage to sponsor a talented pariah, and then something in Abbott's transition from prison went disastrously wrong. Mailer was personally aggrieved and pained, not only for Abbott but for Abbott's victim. It is true that certain writers adopt convicts: criminals, sinister, romantic and stupid as sharks, become the executive arms of intellectuals' violent fantasies. For some reason, intellectuals rarely understand that they are being conned: convicts are geniuses of ingratiation. Still, Mailer after all was not promoting a killer but a prose stylist and what he judged...