Word: rootedness
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The novel reflects an engagement with European history and politics and indeed its genesis is rooted in Barnes' long term interest in European history and politics. It is set in a fictional Eastern European country and is loosely based on Bulgaria. Barnes had visited the country two years ago, just...
Ironically, many of us spend huge amounts of time studying thinkers who were iconoclasts, people who broke down social barriers and shook things up. If Western civilization is rooted in what the Greeks had to teach us, maybe we should learn this final lesson.
Westerners often consider Russians shiftless and lazy. While their style of work may be puzzling to outsiders, it has a logic all its own, rooted in the peasant's seasonal cycle of activities, when months of idleness gave way to short but intensive periods of planting and harvest. As novelist...
GEORGE BUSH WAS SHAPED AND TEMPERED BY HIS mother's nature. His was a soul finally formed by strata of love and discipline relentlessly laid down. Bush was lucky, so very lucky, to be rooted in a woman like Dorothy Walker Bush, who died last week at 91. But her...
In the past 20 years in Arkansas, Lindsey has managed to be counselor to the state's three most prominent -- and sometimes rival -- political egos: Clinton, Senator Pryor and Senator Dale Bumpers. He is their "conscience," they say, and their walking institutional memory. "Bill looks up and sees Bruce in...