Word: rootless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles from the Indo-Chinese border, and thence drove inland toward the city of Nanning. This was their long-expected drive to cut the routes to China from French Indo-China and British Burma. It was a threat not only to China (which will be dry as a rootless tree if the routes are cut) but also to French and British and indirectly Dutch and U. S. interests in the Far East...
...pictures, with little shading, in glistening blacks and lurid tans. But to white readers who object to their violent brushwork they might truthfully reply: Negro life is violent. Author Turpin's story traces the fortunes of a Negro family from its uprooting in the Civil War to its rootless present. Martha, daughter of a plantation slave, died too soon to prevent her daughter from growing up in a bawdy house. Her granddaughter, starting off as a respectable farmer's wife, ended up on the Harlem stage, mothered a high-minded athlete who was painfully settling down at story...
...gone far on its 570-page way before the rails begin to appear. Its scene opens among the Petersburg intelligentsia, gradually broadens to include engineers, workers, peasants, revolutionaries. All around the horizon the skies are darkening; as the atmosphere thickens and the wind rises, these rootless figures swirl in ever madder gyrations. Everyone hails the Revolution as the beginning of a new era, but for many it is the dawn of their last day. Though, like all well-behaved Soviet novels, Darkness and Dawn seeks safety in numbers from the bourgeois bugaboo of a "hero," from its scores of principal...
...world of which he is an effect, but in the world of which he is the cause, the world of his own creation." Critic Brooks thinks that U. S. traditions have long since burned themselves out, that U. S. modern life, as opposed to Europe's, is rootless. "Old American things are old as nothing else anywhere in the world is old, old without majesty, old without mellowness, old without pathos, just shabby and bloodless and worn out. . . . Something infinitely old and disillusioned peers out between the rays of George Ade's wit, and Mrs. Wharton...
...Petersburg Fla. Complaints were made that pilots of the Goodyear blimp Reliance made a practice of flying passengers low and slowly over the town's rootless solarium where sunbathers lounge unclad...