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...Hasan Shah, Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and the High Court of West Pakistan, and lecturer at the Law College of the University of the Punjab, said the chief problem in politics is unity between the two sections that are divided by over 1,000 miles of alien territory...
...City of Dublin its most popular mayor last year when the name of City Councilman Robert Briscoe, a Jew, was drawn from a hat to settle a tie in the voting. The fact that the new chief executive of the capital city of Roman Catholic Ireland belonged to an alien faith made Briscoe a headline name throughout the world, and the new Lord Mayor's winning, puckish and amiable personality did the rest. This spring, after he returned home from a triumphant tour of the U.S., extolling Ireland and Israel (the United Jewish Appeal paid for his trip), Briscoe...
...Future. In his present style (Canticum Sacrum, In Memoriam Dylan Thomas), Stravinsky is experimenting with the serial or tone row technique of Arnold Schoenberg (see below), whom he once regarded as the leader of an alien musical camp. Said protean Igor Stravinsky on his 75th birthday: "I simply cannot do without a tonal row, and have come more and more to feel that it is 'the way of the future...
...next surface we reach is less pleasant; many of those taken with the exotic air of Europe equate a dashing, alien air with uncleanliness. And indeed the air around them often seems to have a dash of something in it, and sometimes does serve the purpose of alienation...
...feature peculiar to Continentalism, however, is sun glasses. These are lifted right from the French and Italian Rivieras and from the left bank, and give a dashing and alien air to one's whole appearance. What is so foolish is that they are worn indoors; and while most may think the wearer suffers from dilation of the pupils, he himself has transformed his table in the Waldorf to a little wrought iron one in some sidewalk cafe, where he sits reading a foreign language newspaper. Dark glasses are a little farther than most care to go, though...