PHENIX CITYâA public television documentary tells about the transformation of an Alabama city so wicked that Gen. George S. Patton threatened to roll his tanks across the river from Ft. Benning and destroy it.
The term alienation which refers to a person's separation from the body was first used in ancient Greece (Temel, et al. Cynicism as a mediator of relations between job stress and work alienation: a study from a developing country--Turkey.
These nouns refer to personal behavior assumed for effect. An affectation is an artificial manner or behavior adopted to impress others or call attention to oneself: Post-Renaissance scholars often adopted the affectation of recasting their names in classical form (Steven Jay Gould).