Word: rootlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be a nuisance, to be sure, but, given the destructive power of guns, it would hardly be an outrageous imposition in an industrial society that demands registration of cars, businesses, private planes, dogs and marriages, as well as prescriptions for many mild drugs. Even the Bedouins of Jordan, rootless wanderers and fierce individualists all, are required to register their rifles with desert police...
Father Y. Father. Bohemian Harold Painter is, in fact, a bright, creative Californian with a superficially rootless history: his parents were divorced during his infancy; he grew up in a foster home, joined the Navy at 17, later quit college to become a newspaper reporter in Alaska and the state of Washington. In 1957 Painter married a fellow Anchorage reporter, Jeanne Bannister, despite Jeanne's parents' disapproval, and the couple lived and wrote together happily in Pullman, Wash. One day in 1962, while Painter stayed home tending Mark, his wife drove their daughter to nursery school...
...WIND (Hickory). At 19, Donovan (born Donovan Leitch) is already known as the British Dylan for his original composition, his crude, nasal voice and whining harmonica. Unlike Dylan, he is more blue than bitter, ignores contemporary complaints to mine the more traditional folk lode-unrequited love, loneliness and rootless ramblings...
Haven of Discontent. The Berkeley campus, a cultural haven in a neighborhood of cheap housing and depressed industry, has some 3,000 hangers-on. They consist mainly of would-be artists, rootless university dropouts, left-winging political activists, and quite harmless little old ladies who delight in attending every concert, rally and public lecture on the campus...
Camembert & Wine. Plantlike, but not quite plants, fungi are rootless and leafless, consist of tiny threads (hyphae) tangled in a mass (mycelium) that can grow as much as half a mile in 24 hours. Lacking chlorophyll, fungi cannot make their own food, batten instead on fabric, fur, fat, paint, plants, plastics, skeletons, cold cream, jet fuel and people. One species can survive only on the left hind leg of a water beetle. Most fungi reproduce by the sexual union of two different spores, sometimes drop hundreds 'of millions of spores in three or four days. Most of them...