Word: homesickness
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...department of education for a parking lot (now occupied) by a faceless building), there had been acrimony, arguments about the nature of progress, between usurpers and usurpees. This time, no." By now, Daddy is resigned to constant change, to being part of a "mobile family." Even though he is homesick for America, and his family wants a secure home, they will not settle down. All the Daddy-author can do is try to live with the latest of a series of rented houses in a strange environment, where the only good thing he can find about the new house...
...country. I am ashamed of my country today." Is there any hope for Argentina? "No−oh, maybe in 200 years." Borges is almost totally blind, but he knows how shabby Buenos Aires has become, "and I still get homesick if I'm away for a few months...
...more than a century Saigon has played coy mistress to a series of foreign masters. Seemingly pliant, she has been occupied by Chinese conquerors, French colonialists, Japanese invaders and American troops. When the French arrived in 1862, Saigon was an unprepossessing village of palm trees and straw shacks. Then homesick planners dreaming of Paris remade her to suit their own visions. Narrow, winding streets were rearranged into the neat geometry of spacious public squares and broad boulevards. A twin-spired cathedral, an opera house, a palace were built to grace the squares. But if Saigon was kept in style...
...pedicabs, Hondas, mini-Jeeps, taxis, small trucks-anything that would move -Saigonese sped up and down broad boulevards lined by huge tamarind trees. The hot dry air turned blue with exhaust smoke as the procession wheeled endlessly past the sidewalk cafés where red-bereted French paratroopers and homesick G.I.s once sat, watching the lissome Vietnamese girls stroll...
...shores of the island once again prove cloister like in their immutability, these globetrotters are more easily prey to a new, but no less powerful, set of images of worlds not realized. And within a few weeks, a month at most, the disillusioned ranks of the lovesick, the homesick, and the big city buffs will succumb to new illusions of journey and escape. Has anyone seen my sunglasses...