Word: homesickness
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...having a low level of tolerance for people who try to tell them what to do with their money. Some of them, however, are civil engineers forced into trucking because of the lack of jobs. Others, like Manuel Alvarez, have been journalists abroad who returned because they were homesick. "This is a battle for the future," says Alvarez, the owner of an old truck so lacking in engine parts that it had to be towed onto the field. "I am fighting so my children won't have to be Marxist. Marxism annuls personality and takes away initiative...
...could be truly pulled apart and reassembled. . .a vision around some corner that will make everything fall into place." Naturally, he does not really find that vision. The sheer energy generated in reporting the Cambodian and Laotian invasions is followed by emptiness. As Willwerth tells it he got sick, homesick, bored and only aroused by the death of a photographer friend. Work is what pulls him through...
...freer exchange of ideas and to shuffle around learning areas by using the expanses of unobstructed floor space. But it is just as conceivable that the old departmental hostilities might arise that the planning faculty can't stand the sight of the landscape architects, that the students are homesick for a little visual and acoustical privacy. In such a case the GSD would find itself left with a building working in opposition to the things its occupants want. And perhaps Gund Hall's fall from greatness will be its inability to accomodate its spaces to changing user needs and situations...
...says. While visiting, Getty plans to look over an art museum he is building on his property in Malibu, and check out a clutch of buildings in which he has financial interests but has never seen. "I admit it," said the 79-year-old Getty. "I'm getting homesick...
...lived fully enough to have few regrets. At 56, he is a youngish old Africa hand. He left his native Ireland when he was 18 for life on a Kenya farm. As an officer in the British army during World War II, he helped round up Mussolini's homesick legions in northeast Africa. A more difficult job was keeping the Somali nomads from each other's throats...