Word: alienated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great shaking up of old cultures and old ideas." In his new novel My Secret History, Paul Theroux offers an affectionate and accurate sketch of his friend and mentor. The character's name is S. Prasad, but the facts and mannerisms are V.S. Naipaul's: "He was an unusual alien: he knew everything about England, he had an Oxford degree, owned his own house, and had published half a shelf of books. He had won five literary prizes . . . Still, he called himself an exile. He said he didn't belong -- he looked it in his winter coat. Seeing...
...with hate letters, telegrams and phone calls that assailed him as "that yellow bastard." Says Japanese-born Aki Yoshikawa, research director of the University of California's Berkeley Roundtable on International Economics: "There's definitely an element of racism among many people who criticize Japan. Something about Japan is alien to them...
...always managed to be respectable so that people want to have it in their homes. ((The new bosses)) have a virgin-and-whore feeling about journalism -- you're either the Times of London or the Sun. The idea that there's a balancing act in between, I think, is alien to them." So, apparently, is openness to reporters: Smith, who had already announced plans to leave at the end of the month, was abruptly fired after it was learned that he had spoken to TIME...
...mainline plight might be understandable if all of U.S. Christendom were reeling under the shocks of secularism and the inroads of new, alien faiths. But that is not the case. During the past two decades, black Protestant groups have gained, Roman Catholic membership has grown a solid 16%, and the boom in the conservative evangelical churches (including Fundamentalists, Pentecostals and charismatics) has caused some to envision a religious revival...
...other flamboyantly named students through a discussion of Rousseau and Romanticism, only occasionally thrown off by a modern sensibility ("What does self-serving mean?" "Well, the gas station is self- service"). Yet Grant, one of those gypsy scholars who move from country to country, finds Samoa considerably more alien than his last posting, in Beirut. "In Lebanon," he says, "there was at least some bridge with the West. But here you feel totally cut off. The culture is 3,000 years old and very complex and so different from ours that we wouldn't know how to begin to penetrate...