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...Today, although many of us find worth in participating in mainstream institutions, we typically discover these institutions to be Eurocentric, insensitive to our cultural backgrounds, irrelevant to our interests, unsympathethic to our needs, and void of an understanding of and interest in our histories-in short, historically and currently alien and alienating...
Because of his newspaper's "moderate" standpoint, Shah maintains, his daily is not likely to run afoul of the law. He regards the government's "code of conduct" as necessary to prevent papers expressing foreign views from eroding the stability of the monarchy. "Because alien resources are at their disposal," he says, "if you give them absolute freedom, are they going to have objective considerations without alien social and political bias dominating their news? Ninety-eight per cent of the people subscribe to the two symbols of Nepal: our monarchy and independent constitution. The remaining two per cent...
Such a center would also establish "a non-alien, broad-based context for Third World students to interact as legitimate members of the Harvard community," an Organization spokesman added...
...Chinese society. Alitto, however, chafed in his role as the chronicler of one man and his influence. Consequently, the book is marred by his attempts to make Liang an overarching symbol for traditional China, striving to capture in one life, the dilemmas of an entire nation confronted with alien cultures and agonizing domestic political choices...
...literally dogs his path with a graphic spaniel imitation; Eric Elice and Marianne Owen as Lysander and Hermia separate "as may well be said becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid" before they fall asleep, roll towards each other and exchange places before waking up. Even Linn-Baker's alien Puck adds comic touches, hopping to his sing-song tetrameter or grimacing with impatience at Oberon's bombast...