Word: alien
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bombing is not a welcome precedent for a nation that has long been known for its moralistic foreign policy. We certainly respect the American ability at self-control which the sophisticated idea of a step-like escalation seems to demonstrate, but the logic of escalation itself seems very alien to us. It looks like beating somebody with one hand, while asking at the same time for a gentlemanly discussion with him. Should he accept the invitation, he has surrendered; this might be honorable for the hitter but not for the other fellow. Accepting the cruel realities of international politics...
...lean chops and darting eyes of a nouvelle vague flesh peddlar, is obviously claustrophobic beneath the heavy angles and oppressive ceilings of Adams House. But outside his own room, he pays for a heightened freedom of movement with his inability to be at ease or in scale against alien objects or in alien environments. He's lost, often quite literally, insuch differing surroundings as a mortuary-like IAB shower room and the lush mechanical complexity of the Loeb shop...
...Alien Atmosphere. The three-ton Venice Landscape,* currently on display at Manhattan's Whitney Museum, locates three 7-ft.-tall bronze monsters on a mechanistic version of a Giacometti plain sown with half-spheres, cylinders, 16 round holes and 16 matching pegs-a symbolic landscape, to Trova, of "the world today with its IBM machines." Decorating his figures are gizmos from his large assortment of "found objects," which he picks up in the antique shops around St. Louis' Gaslight Square. A brace of oxygen tanks perches on the shoulders of the center figure, while a shower nozzle, stainless...
Whereas, It is the sense of the Faculty present and sitting that this system is to be opposed as one which involves the University in an arrangement that is inequitable and attaches alien consequences to the conduct of academic affairs; therefore...
...said that although my own working conditions were splendid, a great many teaching fellows -- particularly those who sectioned large Gen Ed courses -- were forced to cope with "alien material imposed on them by the professors, which neither they nor their students go for," and which they had to spend their section meetings "unteaching...