Word: driftings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There are a few of these people left in Cambridge, refusing to drift away into maturity, writing graduate theses that never get done, waiting for the perfect job which offers all the qualities of post-revolutionary life as well as tenure. Despite their lack of spine, or rather because of it, like jellyfish, they have declined to be beaten into place in the grim division of labor that has descended on us. They are the laggard remnants of an unruly "new working class" vanguard which has long since marched stiffly and sullenly to take up positions in the new corporate...
...first piece of good advice you will get from "veterans" is that no one needs a guidebook--it's much more fun to find your own little restaurants, to discover your own delightful little hostels, to drift where the wind blows you. But such spontaneity leaves many a bit insecure, and the prospect of eating-what-the-people-eat may reinforce the queasiness. So give in. Buy a guidebook...
...Weston chanted as indefatigably as blackbirds on a spring morn. Bands and discotheques rocked away with Elizabethan abandon. And many young couples were seen to be popping below quite early, leading one ancient mariner to muse that the cruise might be fruitful beyond Cunard's calculations. The great drift-in's only real disaster, said New Bedford, Mass., Travel Agent Bob Penler, occurred "when...
...accept Barrington Moore's analysis, and to act on it in ways that he, in company with Hughes and the majority of Harvard's other faculty members, would consider misguided or reprehensible. But for the moment, interests in civil rights and community organizing just led many Tocsin people to drift into the other leftist groups that were starting to surface: the Student Non-Violent Co-Ordinating Committee (SNCC), for instance, or the new Students for a Democratic Society, which gradually absorbed most of Tocsin's members and finally, in 1964, its small treasury as well. That was just over...
...case for greater autonomy is gaining surprising strength. It is built upon both a Scottish sense of uniqueness and a fear that if affairs are left to drift, Scotland will be in deep trouble. Fishermen worry that with Britain's membership in the Common Market, they will be powerless to prevent incursions from European fleets. Residents of towns touched by the offshore oil boom are anxious about the soaring inflation brought on by, among other things, sudden prosperity, population growth and shortages of housing and services...