Word: driftingly
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...face it," said the Times of India, "the ship that is India is in serious trouble. If we are lucky, it may drift into some reasonably safe port. If not, it can get wrecked on its way to nowhere. We need not go into history to discover that not all ships make it to port." That somber reflection on the present condition of a country that is still known as the world's largest democracy came as tension in troubled Punjab was beginning to ebb. Three weeks after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi sent the Indian army to Amritsar...
...there is a limbo of the lost through which American males of a certain age and status almost inevitably must pass these days. Divorced, not loving their abandoned children as much as they loathe their former wives, directing a combination of need and hostility toward the women who drift in and out of their new lives, they are, as Mickey puts it, "involved in a variety of pharmaceutical experiments," which, as Eddie completes the thought, "test the American dream of oblivion." Another way of putting it is that their lives are full of incident and devoid of coherence...
...wanted to know, to bank the coal fire in one's rooms, and on a cold night take advantage of the current of warm air rising in the chimney? With sufficient skill one could, he explained, feed an entire roll of toilet paper up the flue whence it would drift out on the night air to garland the trees in the Yard...
...Assistant Stage Manager Tony Rudie sweeps the stage. Jack Phillips oversees the beginning of a Sganarelle rehearsal from a table littered with coke cans (the A.R.T. is actually in rehearsal for Sganarelle now, since they will be taking it to the Los Angeles Olympics next month). Actors drift in, warm up, and begin to rehearse...
...Kind of Day Did You Have? presents a mirror image of this condition. Victor Wulpy, 70, is "a world-class intellectual" who is trying to keep life at arm's length. He has "arranged his ideas in well-nigh final order: none of the weakness, none of the drift that made supposedly educated people contemptible...