Word: alienating
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...message was that "the Russian language has remained in the main the same as it was before the October upheaval . . . Language is created for the purpose of serving society as a whole . . . [Language] is all-national." Philologist Stalin savagely denounced Marr as a vulgarizer of Marxism, called him arrogant, alien, and demanded the liquidation of the "Marr clique" as saboteurs...
Concludes Schmidt: "The people of Czechoslovakia today stand as prisoners in a Communist camp. Their sense of national identity and honor, their sense of the value of political freedom and their revulsion against alien rule is strong. But not so strong as the instinct for individual self-preservation ... On the whole, their position is about what it was under the Nazis...
Just for the record: nowhere in my statement is to be found the suggestion that the student should not be allowed to explore alien philosophies of government or economy; nowhere do I indicate that the faculty should not be at liberty to indict and analyze deficiencies in American life; nowhere do I hint at an orthodoxy that should trammel the thinking of any faculty member who has a basic respect for Christianity and a free economy. If he has notions at complete variance with these latter, which are, to the best of my knowledge, considered by the trustees of Harvard...
That didn't stop the Justice Department. It had legal justification for its position: wartime power to exclude any alien it considers dangerous to the U.S. without granting him a hearing. The only inkling anybody got of its case against 35-year-old Ellen Knauff turned up in a letter which was introduced into the court records. It was from former Attorney General Tom Clark to an unnamed friend; it said that the Justice Department was convinced that Ellen Knauff had been a paid agent for the pre-Communist government of Czechoslovakia while she worked for the U.S. Army...
...took a place at the head of the picket line, earnestly urged the workers to stay out until their demands were met. This was too much for Philippine Labor Secretary Primitive Lovina, who also happens to be a close friend of Colonel Soriano. Hogan, Lovina said, was "an undesirable alien and a mere agitator...