Word: adrift
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being a young fool. She prays to be free of all responsibilities, she does not want a soon-to-be-born grandchild cluttering up her house, and, in fact, she would like to burn the house and sing a secret song of glee before the flames. But to cut adrift from the continuities and content of life is scarcely the way to start a new life, except perhaps second childhood...
ASSASSINATION has never been an instrument of politics in the U.S.: no plot to seize power, no palace intrigue, has ever cost an American President his life. The three assassins whose bullets killed Presidents Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley were lonely psychopaths, adrift from reason in a morbid fascination with the place history gives those who reverse its orderly progress. Each sought an hour of mad glory-and each died convinced that history would understand...
...wife Octavia and Poppea's husband Ottone plot an assassination. Ottone, clad in his own mistress' dress, sneaks into Poppea's room but is discovered. Nero wrings the story from Ottone's mistress, Drusilla, by torture. He banishes the plotters, sets his wife adrift alone in a boat, and crowns Poppea empress of Rome...
...casting a child adrift in New York's schools, perhaps to find excellence and perhaps only to acquire a Bronx accent, is not to the taste of most white parents affluent enough to afford any alternative. New York is losing four students to the suburbs for every one it gets back. The city's total public school enrollment is up 20,000 this year. But nonpublic enrollment is rising faster; 25,000 youngsters are in private schools and 400,000 in parochial (chiefly Roman Catholic) schools. Negroes and Puerto Ricans last year comprised 40.5% of the city...
Having been set adrift by the News of the World, Churchill will probably land on another London paper. It is not likely to be the Daily Mail, though, or the Daily Telegraph or the Evening Standard. Randolph has already been there...