Word: homesick
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...prefers to use the most obsolete devices of traditional fiction. It seems a century since one act of illicit sex led the heroine to pregnancy. Here, when Ida is raped by a homesick German soldier, little blue-eyed Giuseppe appears promptly nine months later. In bygone books, the children of such misalliances were frequently provided with preternatural or otherwise spooky talents. Hester Prynne, for example, was unsettled by the prescience of her illegitimate daughter Pearl in The Scarlet Letter. Similarly, Ida frets naively about Giuseppe's intense otherworldliness. Morante's symbolism is rarely more modern than the 19th...
...shown as a group in a still unfinished Tretyakov Museum building. Some time this summer, he is planning to leave Moscow and settle somewhere in the West, taking about 80 of his favorite paintings with him -provided. Costakis adds, that he can return to Russia "if I get too homesick or if I want to come back...
...century Caliph Harun al-Rashid once took a Heraclean slave girl into his harem. So homesick was she that the Caliph built for her an exact replica of Heraclea, her native Greek city, at her exile on the banks of the Euphrates. To many the American enclave of the Panama Canal Zone seems such a Heraclea, almost a parody of country-club America, an elegant company town set down in the Panamanian jungle. But that picture is something of at stereotype, as TIME'S Bernard Diederich discovered when he visited the zone last week. Diederich s report...
...Oval Office. Down the hall, Ron Nessen keeps three more Doonesburys, all poking gentle fun at the press secretary. Downstairs, in the office of White House Photographer David Kennerly, who covered the Viet Nam War for U.P.I, and TIME, there is a set of Doonesbury panels depicting a homesick Viet Cong terrorist writing to his mother from an assignment in Laos: "How I wish I could be home violating the truce accords." Down the street, Treasury Secretary William Simon hoards a series of Doonesburys drawn in 1972, when Simon was the nation's first energy czar. They show...
...homesick for the States or bored with this life. Costa Rica is a lovely country. Great weather...