Word: rootlessly
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...When the Mediterranean world appears, it is not the, sumptuous place imagined by Matisse or Picasso, but either Catalonia or the seedier Levantine environment of Cavafy's Alexandria. Its heroes, whose ghostly presences are often quoted in Kitaj's paintings, are the shipless helmsmen of modernism, the rootless cosmopolitans like the couple in Where the Railroad Leaves the Sea (1964). Kitaj paints wandering Jews and victims of the power game: Walter Ben jamin, Leon Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg. He has also talked about inventing "a figure, a character in a picture the way novelists have been able...
...made by bright-eyed, neatly dressed youths who radiate assurance and confidence. Such a street scene has become a frequent occurrence in cities across the U.S. as swarms of cults-some new, some old, some familiar, some obscure-try to recruit new members. They know that in rootless, permissive, mobile America, many people are desperately searching for meaning and stability in their lives...
...lives on axles are fairly representative of American society as a whole-apart from those itchy wheels. FMCA members are doctors and lawyers and stockbrokers, many retired, some not; they are construction workers and accountants and secretaries, many quite young. They are, literally, driven people en route but not rootless, seeking from rally to rally and clime to clime old acquaintances and new, scenes to remember, sun sets of a different hue. L.W. ("Will") Willette, a retired, seven-times wounded Marine Corps sergeant major who looks like Ollie Hardy and sounds like John Wayne, is typical. Will takes...
...youngest canyon; we fumble through/the same impassable passage." Hope finds outlet in dreams, signs and visions: a rainstorm on the ocean; a mirage of fellow travelers. Rock formations and vegetation come to stand for futility: "the children chase [Tumbleweed]/as though they were chasing/hoops or balls/the rootless chasing the rootless...
...corporate lobby in favor of the small farmer and economic justice. If the amendments Carter introduces to the Reclamation Act of 1902 in the next Congressional session significantly raise the 160-acre ceiling, the self-styled Georgia peanut farmer will have sided with agribusiness against the defenseless, the rootless, the unemployed, and the landless...