Word: adrift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Adrift for six years in interstellar limbo, disowned by its home base, the spaceship seemingly has no place to go but Ultima Nostalgia. All, however, may not be lost for the United Star Ship Enterprise and its 430 crewpersons. As countless signs, T shirts and bumper stickers proclaimed last week in Chicago, STAR TREK LIVES! Star Trek? The old NBC-TV space western? Indeed. While a new TV season dawdles toward its debut, 142 U.S. stations and another 117 overseas from Abu Dhabi to Zambia keep rerunning and re-rerunning the series. With an army of fans ready...
...like Kipling's nine and sixty ways of performing tribal lays, every single one of them is right. One theory stresses the number of knowledgeable people at Harvard--and the theory is true. Harvard is a center of scholarship and thinking. Another theory stresses how Harvard cuts students adrift from their old ways of thinking, until if they still can't choose where to live and what to live for, they at least share Thoreau's suspicion that resignation to a predetermined role would just mean confirmed desperation...
Literary sea voyages often carry a heavy ballast of allegory. The potential, after all, is readymade; it requires no great leap of imagination to see a ship as a tiny world adrift in eternity. Far Tortuga shuns such metaphysics in favor of hard surfaces. Avers is no Captain Ahab, nor is the Eden a ship of fools. The captain and his crew simply make up an exotic collection of drifters, drunks, petty criminals and indefatigable optimists, worth knowing, this novel implies, for their own sakes...
Street Stud. The petals are all bruised in Miss Janie: an ice-cool, second-rate white guitarist; a cocky, unconsciously comic black nationalist; an ex-beatnik Jewish poet adrift on drugs; a dutiful black wife two-timed by her best friend, who comes through the back door every time she goes out the front...
...short, four-class living provides freshmen with a taste of upperclass sanity, based on experience, which has proved itself to be reassuring, at the very least, to those adrift in what may be a very turbulent sea called Harvard...