Word: adrift
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...experience of relocating to the United States. “Immediately upon coming here, I noticed that my country vanished off the map. All the pegs that anchored my culture and my history were gone,” she says. “I felt that I was coming adrift from my cultural mooring, which created an intense sense of vertigo,”“It’s about fear and control and longing, and explores how people desperately want to connect but maintain life via surface means,” Evans says...
...substantive change. By not familiarizing the incoming freshman class with Gen Ed as well as the Core, Harvard has betrayed its discomfort and confusion with the new program. The final vote last May was supposed to provide us with a bold new direction; instead it has left us adrift. This reservation is not, however, unwarranted. General Education remains so underdeveloped that at this point, it would be impossible to guide students into the system. This is hardly surprising to us; the imperative to satisfy each micro-constituency in the Faculty could result in little more than a muddled and insipid...
...created indelible allegories of postwar man adrift without God. He was the movies' great dramatist of strong, tortured women and the finest director of actresses. More than any other filmmaker, he raised the status of movies to an art form equal to novels and plays. Yet when Ingmar Bergman died at 89, the popular description of him was, Woody Allen's favorite director...
...created indelible allegories of postwar man adrift without God. He was the movies' great dramatist of strong, tortured women, and the finest director of actresses. More than any filmmaker, he raised the status of movies to an art form equal to novels and plays. Yet when Ingmar Bergman died on Monday, the popular description of him was: Woody Allen's favorite director...
...places like Somalia. Violence in recent years has left roughly 3 million women widows and created about 5 million orphans, she said. Unemployment for much of the country is as high as 60%. Tent cities are springing up in Baghdad to house the estimated 2 million internally displaced people adrift in Iraq...