Word: rootlessness
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...rehab center north of Aberdeen or charming Scottish journalists on the serpentine train journey to Edinburgh, the person whom Cameron resembles more than any other is a young Blair. He has the same brow-furrowing desire not only to understand his interlocutors but to empathize with them; the same rootless accent that in Britain indicates an easy start in life (in his case, school days at Eton and a degree from Oxford). And like Blair a decade ago - when he was dumping his party's traditions to appeal to a wider constituency - Cameron inspires suspicion as well as excitement...
...rule," says Tony Judt, a British-born professor of European history at New York University. "Before World War II, no one spoke about 'the West' as a shared cultural area. Americans, mostly of recent European descent, saw themselves as getting away from Europe. Europeans saw America as worryingly rootless, an exclusively mercantile place without culture, heritage, tradition, which was therefore threatening to their future. I think we may be seeing an unarticulated return to an opening of that old tap." The young are the ones most easily inebriated. Europeans entering university this autumn have no personal memory of the joyous...
...hallucinatory premonitions of Hitler's rise. This month comes her latest, L'Ombre del Cerro (Shadow of the Turkey Oak), about two friends struggling to survive the wartime chaos of a country Di Natale once knew: Italy. For her - as for Kaja and millions of others in this rootless, globalized age - the search for home never ends...
...Christian yoga is an oxymoron," agrees Laurette Willis of Tahlequah, Okla. She says yoga led her to dabble in a rootless New Age lifestyle until she became a Christian in 1987. Willis now speaks to Christian groups against yoga, offering instead a series of poses called PraiseMoves...
Kerkorian's childhood, rough and rootless, may have instilled in him that lifelong drive to get ahead. Born to Armenian immigrant farmers in Fresno, Calif., he moved at least 20 times as a kid, his parents often struggling with the rent. In junior high, he was expelled for fighting and truancy. After dropping out, he learned to box ("Rifle Right," they called him), and during World War II he shuttled planes across the Atlantic for Britain's Royal Air Force. Back in California, he bought and sold refurbished aircraft and started an air service ferrying gamblers from Los Angeles...