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...equally eager to guard Buon Yun from the Americans' embrace. Both are strangers to the Montagnards, but characteristically the villagers even have an ancient legend to describe this fearsome confluence of alien protectors: the story of the barking deer, coveted both by Kra the tiger and Bru the eagle. As they fight over who will give the deer the warmer home, their claws and talons turn the prize into "a red splotch on the ground...
...their children. For Gatsby's story is of those energies that settled Western America. He is son to that frontier past, the demise of which was sealed with the frontier. And Gatsby's tragedy comes of his attempt to graft the promise of a faded pastoral America onto an alien present...
...rich nations, and urged producers of other raw materials to emulate it. He drew a surprisingly low-key response from Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who said that "isolated voices are to be heard that show there are some who have come to the session with intentions alien to [the conference's] lofty ideals...
...February concluded that since 1969 such intimidation, mainly directed against Catholics, has caused at least 60,000 of Greater Belfast's 500,000 people to abandon their homes for safer -meaning segregated-neighborhoods. Even Belfast's housing authorities now recommend that "stray" families be moved away from "alien" neighborhoods. The Hamiltons and McCartans have had more than enough. "We're all thinking of leaving," said a male survivor at the funeral of John Hamilton...
...most of the Portuguese in Cambridge, the plunge from the familiar rural-agricultural life of the Azores into the mainstream of Cambridge's urban and industrial environment has tremendous cultural impact. Faced with the formidable task of staying economically and socially afloat in a new and alien environment, the Portuguese are confronted with an intense ethnic identity crisis...