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…steps, a few hours after midnight, a very strange-talking, stranger-looking member of the Living Theatre tells a crew-cut ROTC cadet why we're in Viet Nam. They actually talk with each other. Another electrical engineering student, a Goldwaterman, finds out…

…in November of 1943. On that morning he took a train to the Camp, where strangers surrounded him with no friends in sight. As soon as they got off the train they were taught how to march and then sent to get something to eat. The first night there was hard…

…they were. The strangers had the potential of disrupting the local economy by saturating the work force with cheap labor. The people of California knew this and treated them very badly. The families were forced to live in campsites on the outskirts of towns…

…, it will be more cordial for you to shake hands, although, in the case of strangers, you may curtsey only, if you prefer”. For the young girl’s clothing for the event, the aunt states, “In choosing your own costume, dear Charlotte, be sure to select one that is youthful…

…the door and walked in. Then, a new reality entered in my mind. The entire mirror designed wall, and a McDonalds style eating area appears. And also all of the strangers had looked me up from the kitchen and were staring at me. I could hardly hear…

…not been a country to agree with killing its children but abuse has never been a stranger. “Spare the rod and spoil the child.” This is a strong quote dating back to when Puritans first settled the eastern United States. Then parents would regularly whip…

…, 1057). Kings usually would give away their daughter’s hand in marriage to a total stranger for a peace treaty with another nation. The daughter had no say in what was done with her, like Healfdene’s daughter who was given away to Onela the Swedish king…

…, if not support, for Helen when she says, Remember Helen of Argos, Zeus’s daughter——/ would she have sported so in a stranger’s bed/ if she had dreamed that Achaea’s sons were doomed/ to fight and die to bring her home again? /Some god spurred her to do her shameless…

…the decorative motifs of the Chantilly and Blonda laces. The custom of wearing a bridal veil started during the days when matchmakers arranged marriages between total strangers. The bride was delivered to the ceremony hidden by the veil and the groom…

…stranger who visited the office and the warehouse was a continuos source of fear and concern for the people in the “ Secret Annexe.” There were several occasions when they sat up all night, afraid to make a sound, fearing that they had heard someone moving…