Word: adrift
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...communicate with one another through a national emotional chain letter. Off-putting or silly to the uninitiate, her messages inspire true believers. She has tapped into a preoccupation with addiction and alcohol, added a whiff of New Age mysticism and come up with a message that reaches Americans adrift in an atomistic society and often disillusioned with traditional psychotherapy...
Beattie understands being overboard, which helps her throw best-selling lifelines to those still adrift...
Even Wills' detours into history, biography, political science and theology cannot obfuscate the obvious. Americans are embracing evangelical religions because they feel spiritually and morally adrift in a society that judges values on a slippery curve of relativity. Secular intellectuals are also edgy, although they are likely to call the sensation angst and seek the blessings of a psychotherapist...
...rejiggering work arrangements is relatively easy. The more subtle changes necessary to successfully manage a culturally diverse work force often scare the daylights out of even the best-intentioned executives. Many find themselves for the first time adrift in uncharted territory. Workers don't follow familiar codes of behavior. Bosses must rethink the way they evaluate people and unlearn habits that can alienate or confuse employees from different backgrounds...
...consisted of posture tests in a drafty gym and an awkward mixer in the chapel parking lot. We received a reading list before our arrival that included such books as Black Rage and Living with Sex: The Student's Dilemma, but no one bothered to discuss them with us. Adrift in the temporary calm between Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and the shootings at Kent State, we struggled to survive the transition from high school to college with as much grace as we could muster. Being a freshman was a necessary stage of growth, like the chrysalis before...