Word: adrift
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...closure has left teachers suddenly adrift in a strange land. Many, like Steele, have taken to the streets, leading demonstrations against Nova and Sahashi and holding press conferences denouncing the company. On Nov. 2 former Nova employees announced a lessons-for-food program, which would allow students to pay for classes in meals and groceries. Meanwhile, some airlines have offered discount flights home for cash-strapped teachers, while embassies have opened hot lines to aid their stranded citizens. The out-of-work teachers have glutted the local labor market, causing other schools to stop accepting job applications. "The market...
...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...