Word: alien
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...private elementary school that opened last year in two frame houses in the Arkansas Delta town of Marvell (pop. 1,916). Declared the school's founders, who are also members of the resurgent white Citizens' Council: "Integration is the corruption of the true American heritage by alien concept and ideology." More discreetly, most of the new private schools advertise "quality education," a slogan appealing to the genuine fear of many Southern whites that a massive influx of black students into formerly white public schools will slow down learning...
Tears and Threats. Ghetto language -alien to the genteel mores of the white middle-class teachers-filled the air. Provocative statements worked out in advance were brutally introduced by group leaders in discussion sessions to bring out basic attitudes. One example: "Almost without exception, black teachers are inferior to white teachers." The 70 leaders cajoled and insulted the participants in an effort to push them into understanding, or at least into receptivity. One woman burst into tears under the pressure. Another at first wilted under an explosive attack and then threatened to resign from her teaching job. A few older...
...culture transplant poses the same difficulty as a heart transplant. It is socially as well as biologically instinctive to reject what is alien. One slightly condescending form of acceptance is to treat what is foreign as exotic. Culturally speaking, this makes one man's meat another man's persimmon. In many ways, the Grand Kabuki is a Japanese persimmon on a U.S. theatergoer's palate. It is a sweet, sumptuous and strange new taste sensation with which to start the Broadway season...
...behaves pretty much like a willful child playing hooky from the sanatorium. As her erotic partner, Marcello Mastroianni displays all the zest of a man summoned up for tax evasion. He appears to be lipreading his English, although the script seems to find the language just about as alien as Mastroianni does. The five scriptwriters who supposedly worked on the film must have spent enough time at the water-cooler to flood a camel. The only smidgin of plot is that Dunaway makes a late abortive attempt at suicide, something the film successfully achieves after about ten minutes...
...most New Yorkers, the very thought of a Met victory was an alien concept. "In those days," recalls Leftfielder Cleon Jones, "people never even asked if we had won. Most of the time it would have been a silly question." But the fans went on cheering, ever hopeful that some day heroics would replace horselaughs...