Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question will always remain how much his political buoyancy affected his music. As his contemporary Vladimir Nabokov pointed out, it is a wretched thing for an artist to leave his homeland and his native sounds, whether musical or verbal. Perhaps because Shostakovich had to bend his inspiration to the will of the state, the quality of his work varies widely. There are, however, his passages of genuine beauty, crisp wit and sheer energy of genius. For those, it is impossible to name a successor...
Even in their highly industrialized homeland, the researchers note, Japanese have considerable protection against stress. They live in closely knit groups and compete as a group, rather than as individuals. But once they enter the U.S., many become subject to the same stresses as Americans. "Most Americans move away from their support group during their lives, move from one place to another, drop old friends and take up with a new set of people," explains Marmot. "That's a very un-Japanese thing...
...warmth of their welcome will certainly reassure Vietnamese doctors about their new homeland. But the refugees must still surmount some major obstacles before they can practice their profession. Like other foreign-trained physicians-who now constitute more than one-fifth of the 300,000 doctors practicing in the U.S.-the Vietnamese must pass the stiff requirements of the Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), which tests both their command of English and knowledge of clinical medicine. Last winter only 7,000 of the 19,000 foreign doctors who took the exams managed to pass. Those...
...Good lord!" exclaimed Frost, "you can't have many readers." In fact, Clarke's readership was never impressive and rarely extended beyond the shores of his homeland. Yet until his death last year at the age of 78. Austin Clarke had claim to the grandest title of the richest language in the world: Ireland's greatest living poet. It was not a claim that went unchallenged, for some maintain that Thomas Kinsella had and continues to hold the title hands down. But since W.B. Yeats's death in 1939, Clarke was Ireland's unofficial poet laureate. The Collected Poems...
...these people will have terrible problems adjusting to life in this country. They will go on welfare, and it may take years before they are fluent in the language. It will be hard for them, much harder than adjusting to life in a communist society in their own homeland...