Word: rootlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...road or lodged at some 18,500 parks in the U.S., and trailer living has gotten so popular that Michigan State University offers degrees in trailering (engineering, design, park management, etc.). It used to be that trailer living was the sole preserve of the unwanted and the rootless. Today, although trailerites have their share of spoilsports, mobile home promoters eagerly point out that most trailer people are nice folks: servicemen, vacationers, professional people and retired couples...
...replaced, Toynbee theorizes, by a "mechanical-industrial dispensation," which "resembles the food-gathering and hunting one in a significant particular. In contrast to the cultivator of the soil, the aboriginal Australian food gatherer and the ultramodern immigrant Australian or American industrial worker are like each other in both being rootless ... If we want a label for the now dawning third age of human history, we can call it equally well either 'the age of Diasporas' or 'the age of civilization...