Word: alienating
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...applause stopped the show. Loudest thunder was for Composer Berlin, who followed a husky rendering of Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning with one husky chorus of White Christmas. When the audience still would not let him go, he gave them a new bit of alien corn called My British Buddy, which at week's end most of London was whistling...
...distrust of judges, Professor Commager echoes Thomas Jefferson's opinion that Chief Justice Marshall was "a crafty chief judge who sophisticates the law to his mind, by the turn of his own reasoning." When Jefferson became President, one of the first things he did was to nullify the Alien and Sedition Acts, which he regarded as unconstitutional. Professor Commager thinks that Jefferson was quite within his powers in thus assuming a prerogative that most people would reserve to the judiciary. For, so Professor Commager argues, if the government of the U.S. is a government by equal and coordinate powers...
...Bill of Rights. But the Professor does not trust the Supreme Court to protect freedom. The record of history, he says, "reveals no instance (with the possible exception of the dubious Wong Wing case) where the Court has intervened on behalf of the underprivileged-the Negro, the alien, women, children, workers, tenant-farmers.* It reveals, on the contrary, that the Court has effectively intervened again and again to defeat congressional efforts to free slaves, guarantee civil rights to Negroes, to protect workingmen, outlaw child labor, assist hard-pressed farmers, and to democratize the tax system. From this analysis the Congress...
Arrogant Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau, who captured Kiev in 1941, was not its first alien invader. For eleven centuries, men of the sword-Variags and Khazars, Tatars, Lithuanians and Poles -ravished the beautiful city. The proud conquerors became dust; Kiev, with its seven rolling hills, its glistening church domes, its banks towering above the Dnieper, survived. It sprawled on the border between the rich, black-soiled south and the forested north, and their wealth was the plasma which always revived...
...another problem the world will be highly sensitive: the Chinese treatment of the minority Moslem race, alien in language, religion and culture. Are the Turks, who form 60% of the population, to be steamrollered into the Chinese pattern or inundated and absorbed by tidal waves of Chinese immigration? Or will China try to preserve the minority languages, schools and courts and let the natives participate in their own Government ? Upon her record in Turkestan, China's claim for trusteeship for other retarded racial groups in Asia may stand or fall...