Word: alienating
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Vito Marcantonio, Manhattan's shrill-tongued voice of Communism in the House, stayed on in politics. Marc caught on as a lawyer for the Communist Party to fight the McCarran alien registration act through the federal courts. He had taken the job, said Marcantonio blandly, as a "public service...
...Agony," Simone Weil once said, "is the supreme 'dark night' which even the perfect need to attain absolute purity; and to attain that end, it has to be bitter agony." Writes Professor Fiedler: "This is a difficult doctrine in all times and places, and it is especially alien and abhorrent in present-day America where anguish is regarded as vaguely unAmerican, something to be grown out of, or analyzed away, even expunged by censorship; and where certainly we do not look to our churches to preach the uses of affliction. It is consolation, 'peace of mind...
...Glyndebourne as the best of his life. The idyl was shattered by World War II. Glyndebourne shut up shop; Bing went to work in a London department store (Peter Jones in Sloane Square) as a coupon clerk, eventually worked his way up to manager. Technically, he was an enemy alien; he had applied for British citizenship in 1939, but the war had prevented his papers from going through. He was never interned. Moreover, he was able to bring his aging parents from Austria to England...
Wisconsin-born, leonine Leo Crowley, ex-Alien Property Custodian, ex-chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp...
...foreign faith, but is solidly Spanish and loyally so. "I think there could be no greater mistake than to suppose that Spanish Protestants constitute any kind of focus of revolt against the present regime, even though . . . they favor a kind of civil and religious liberty which is wholly alien to its program...