Word: adrift
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Torn with self-doubts, self-hatred and continual impulses to suicide, Frost set himself adrift before he was 20. He fled Dartmouth before the end of his first semester, spent three years moving from job to job, finding only in poetry "the momentary stay of confusion." He tormented Elinor White, his shy high school sweetheart, with accusations of disloyalty because she wanted to finish college. Eventually she married him, but by that time, as he liked to say, he had "bent her to his will." He put in two years at Harvard, paid for by his grandfather, who then bought...
...young dude in a silken mustache and patent-leather shoes adrift through the California gold mine country, Harte discovered the literary lode he was to tap for the rest of his life. The Luck of Roaring Camp and The Outcasts of Poker Flat, two short stories published in the Overland Monthly magazine, gave readers so honest and vigorous a draft of frontier life that Harte became an overnight celebrity. It is fair to say, as O'Connor does, that the literature of the West began with Bret Harte...
...them look garish rather than festive. Lewis' New York Store is closed. About the only scene of activity seems to be the wharf, naturally enough in a fishing town. It's calmer here, on the inside of the tip, and the tide is low, very low. A dinghy stands adrift on the black silt, waiting for the cold waters to come back; the rickety, nearly rotten legs of the wharf opposite are exposed in their spindly starkness to sea gulls, boats, and fishing nets...
...classic university campus is a grouping of quaint Gothic or red brick Georgian buildings adrift on a rolling meadow of greensward. But the exploding college population of the U.S. demands less casual and rustic solutions. In the Chicago metropolitan area alone, there are 150,000 college students. By 1980, estimates the University of Illinois, there will be 568,000 questing applicants. To meet this need, the university desperately needed a new campus, one that would be big, modern and accessible to city dwellers...
...equations of orbital mathematics. Human skill and human courage had added the vital ingredients that made the computations correct. Now the dream of docking two spacecraft while they whirl through their curving courses promised to be no more of a problem than parking a compact car; rescue of astronauts adrift in space became a definite possibility. A manned orbiting laboratory suddenly seemed more than an imaginative scheme; a space station that can be constructed aloft seemed within man's grasp. And the men of Gemini 7 who had blasted off eleven days earlier to spend a full two weeks...