Word: alienating
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Ever since the first alien Bowen muscled his way with Cromwell into County Cork, ten generations of Bowen gentry have had a mania for land. For without land the Protestant Anglo-Irish gentry had nothing. In Catholic Ireland, they were spiritual aliens, "people of the ruins...
...Aliens Entirely. But Ireland took its revenge on the alien Bowens. It was a revenge as formless and pervasive as a fog from the bogs. In their isolation the Bowens fell to fighting each other like spiders in a bottle. They fought about careers, buried treasure, inheritances, but mostly about the land. Tired of it all, Elizabeth's father deserted the land, from which the family had drawn its strength to survive. He became a city lawyer. Bowen's Court fell into disuse...
Representative Harold Knutson, in his column in the Brainerd (Minnesota) "Dispatch," discussed last week the Dies Committee's accusations against the Union for Democratic Action. Knutson cited a great many facts about U. D. A. leaders which in his opinion prove it is an alien group. His comment on Dr. James Loeb, executive secretary of the Union, was that Locb formerly taught Romance languages. --From the Nation, July...
...dull, sometimes theatrical, often derivative. Said the New York Times's Olin Downes: "This symphony is far from a work of sustained greatness, either of ideas, workmanship or taste," but "that it has its great moments is unarguable." Said Henry Simon of PM (to which nothing Russian is alien): "a monumental achievement, which must earn for itself a prominent place in symphonic literature." Possibly the Sun's Oscar Thompson best expressed the general reaction. Said he: "If it is not a masterpiece to go thundering down the ages, it does thunder-and for a particular time...
...fighting front," marched dutifully into the fields. With them went their children and their grandparents. From France came trainloads of workmen urged on by Pierre Laval who last week offered to trade tens of thousands of workmen for 5,000 interned French soldiers. To keep 2,500,000 alien laborers from grumbling, the Germans put out special language newspapers...