Word: pariah
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...question of what to do about the British economy became intertwined with the question of what to do about Industry Minister Anthony Wedgwood Benn, whose impassioned antiMarket campaigning had made him the darling of the Labor Party left and the pariah of its right. Business leaders, panicked by Benn's grandiose plans for public control of industries and investment, had been demanding his dismissal from the Cabinet. On the other hand, powerful union leaders including Jack Jones, president of the Transport and General Workers Union, had warned that any demotion of Benn would be taken as "a grave affront...
Marglin can't pinpoint any single experience that radicalized him and established him as the department pariah, but at 37, he is getting used to that role. The dark, wiry activist has survived five years with the reputation of someone who once did respectable work, who won tenure in 1967 as a "straight," but who emerged as a closer Marxist shortly after. He wasn't surprised or hurt when James S. Duesenberry, chairman of the Economics Department, implied that Marglin and MacEwan were politicians, not economists, at a debate in April. The 700 spectators in the Science Center winced...
...poor and spent all his life trying to make a living by farming while white people tried to take his money and crops away from him. His life was a struggle from beginning to end, and his courage in remaining fiercely independent is striking. He was something of a pariah in his community because of his belligerent attitudes towards whites and his insistence on retelling the stories of his many rebellions. "They'd give you a good name if you was obedient to 'em, acted nice when you met 'em and didn't question 'em about what they said they...
...more than two decades East Germany was the pariah among nations, its huge foreign ministry building in East Berlin underused because only a dozen countries, all Communist, maintained full diplomatic relations with it. The West not only denied its existence as a nation but refused to call it the German Democratic Republic-its official name -insisting that it was nothing more than an extension of the Soviet Zone of Occupation. Then five years ago, Chancellor Willy Brandt relaxed Bonn's opposition to the East Berlin regime, and the G.D.R. began its long journey in from the cold. Nation after...
...come together. There's also a element of class barriers, although neither Frederick Forsythe Winterbourne (Barry Brown) nor Annie P. Miller, alias Daisy (Cybill Shepherd) have money problems. Winterbourne has all of the necessary graces to succeed in the elite American circles of Europe while Daisy, a mixture of pariah and parvenu, doesn't even know enough to hold her teacup with her pinky extended. The real tension arises when she rejects his stiff pleas for conformity and rebels against the double-standard demands of his social circles. Daisy goes out with strange men late into the night; she burns...