Word: xenophobia
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...Sexual Xenophobia. Peyret is quick to explain that he wants nothing like the pimp-controlled houses of yore. Civil servants would run them. For the girls, it would be a job, not a way of life -or a home; the girls would not live in the houses. "The main thing," says Peyret, "is that they would be supervised by local or regional health and sanitation authorities...
...Ardrey argues, successful societies must present a united front to the enemy. The enemy is everyone else. "That animal societies are closed, and kept separated by distrust and antagonism," he writes, "has been a worry to all Utopians devoted to an ultimate brotherhood of man." Yet this xenophobia, which Ardrey considers innate, not only knits a society but defines it: "The stranger is necessary, and antagonism directed against him has a biological basis beyond wishful denial. The hostility assures that the group will consist of familiars...
Along with xenophobia has come a surge of Islamic asceticism. All foreign language signs are banned, including street names. Tripoli hotels have had to buy new towels and table napkins to replace the old ones, which had English or Italian on them. Pork has been banned; so has alcohol (except for embassies and oil workers deep in the desert). A bootleg bottle of Scotch brings $20 and the risk of arrest...
...FIRST American masterpiece begins peacefully and proceeds in catch its protagonists in parallel mechanisms external situation and internal drive. Its Joe Doe hero (Spencer Tracy) is mistakenly jailed as a kidnapper by a small-town sheriff. The local hicks get wind of his arrest and through hatred, greed, and xenophobia storm the jail to lynch...
...Ocean Hill Brownsville) as to how much more good she, the post debutante, was doing by volunteer teaching in a ghetto one night a week. Another member of the crowd obviously fearing that I was a student, asked if my Daddy had bought that fancy English car (innuendoes of xenophobia). One woman, who identified her husband as Yale '42, did come over to apologize for the way in which "members of my generation be have...