Word: homesick
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...beautiful house!/This is not my beautiful wife!" For most of my childhood my father helped me decode rock songs. With his guidance, I grew fond of boomer anthems I might have otherwise dismissed as stoned ramblings, like Steely Dan's Deacon Blues and Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues. And there were records in his collection I discovered myself, like Talking Heads' More Songs About Buildings and Food and Marianne Faithfull's Broken English, albums I still number among my favorites. There are, of course, bands we've agreed to disagree on. I think Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground...
...Homesick and crumbling under the pressure of being a first-year pre-med, the future dean of Harvard Business School left Cambridge...
...flooded and turned into skating rinks. So I've been skating since I was 11. But I never really skated. My only skills were to stop and go, though I'll admit fences and snowbanks always did the lion's share of the stopping work. So I felt oddly homesick on the first lesson when everyone came to a crashing halt by slamming into the wall. (Stopping wasn't covered until lesson...
...Ashwin says he isn't homesick at all--even though he calls his parents once or twice...
...boost the country's image. Flexible first-graders are packed off to gymnastics and diving camps while their lankier counterparts head for the volleyball courts. Fu joined the diving assembly line at age 7 and was shipped off to a Beijing sports school a couple of years later. Homesick, she cried for the first few months. But during nine-hour practices she was trained to empty herself of all emotion, particularly fear...