Word: adrift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capital of an independent nation. France, Britain and the U.S. were busy setting up embassies; there had been trade missions from East Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia; and last week the first ambassador arrived-from Communist Bulgaria. When Touré decided to say no to De Gaulle, he cut adrift a land that has only 200 university graduates, a literacy rate of 5%, and an average annual income for most peasants of about $40. But Africa today is in no mood to be practical. Guinea's big gamble was just the thing to capture the imagination of 185 million blacks...
...girls were emotionally adrift, had no clear concept of their predestined female role. Half of them had precocious sex experiences, soon realized that sex was a commodity with which they could bargain for the longed-for emotional contact, and also for more tangible rewards. Three-fourths were above average intelligence; nearly all had ten to twelve years of schooling. One wrote songs, another designed hats, four painted, three wrote poetry, and two tried to write books...
...Cast adrift by the Government, Major Anderson stretched his orders beyond the snapping point, moved his men from Moultrie to Fort Sumter by night. When Southerners in Washington got the word, they rushed to the Old Public Functionary, who crushed out his cigar in the palm of his hand. "My God!" cried James Buchanan. "Are calamities never to come singly! I call God to witness . . . that this is not only without but against my orders...
...Seesaw (by William Gibson) needs only two for the cast. Henry Fonda is an Omaha lawyer, downhearted and adrift in New York while being divorced. Anne Bancroft is a warmhearted, racy-tongued, Bronx-to-Bohemia floater whom he meets at a party. All her life she has given too freely; he all his life has taken. Shuttling between their shabby little flats, they carry on a love affair in sickness and in health, in banter and in woe, bridging a cultural and temperamental divide better than they can blot out a memory of marriage...
Safe Counsel will be particularly valuable to those who look back nostalgically to the golden age of universal morality. For those adrift on the sea of relativism and naturalism, Safe Counsel is a Gibraltar of immutable rules of conduct...