Word: rootedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Somehow the viewer no longer sees the individual characters as being entirely alone. The commonalities in their experiences tie them together, even though they never formally address each other. The second half of the play focuses on their marriages or lovers, and their quest for roots or a place to...
Though short on specifics, Clinton's speech Wednesday night proved that he is remarkably persuasive at making the case for his policies -- a key test of leadership. "If Americans are to have the courage to change in a difficult time, we must first be secure in our basic needs," he...
What this is all about is breaking the matrix of hate. The conflicts that always seem most implacable spring from an intensity of loathing rooted in the conviction that it was "us or them": enemies who could not live together, ideas that could not compromise, land demanded entirely by one...
Whether acting up a dust storm or working the ranch or raising horses for polo (his team recently won the U.S. Polo Association's Western Challenge Cup), Jones stays rooted in the Texas soil. "Natives of my region," he says, "are heirs to a society whose language, manners, cuisine, habits...
The Rockies' new ethos manages to combine the yearning for a simpler, rooted, front-porch way of life with the urban-bred, high-tech worldliness of computers and modems. When the San Francisco earthquake struck almost four years ago, computer writer T.C. Doyle, 30, and his wife Naomi, 29, picked...