Word: unwantedness
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Into Loneliness. As he armed himself for a long season of crisis, John Kennedy had notably changed from the zesty Bostonian who took the oath of office last January. From the start, Kennedy knew well that his job, carrying with it sole responsibility for decisions of imponderable magnitude, had forced...
Outrage & Hope. "I am an outcast," Chambers wrote in his bestselling autobiography, Witness. He traced his feeling of isolation to his birth, as the unwanted child of a struggling commercial artist and a thwarted actress. Chambers was raised in Lynbrook, on the south shore of Long Island, where "family life...
Nice Folks. It takes a heap o' claustrophilia to make a trailer a home, but more than 3,500,000 Americans are addicted to what they fondly call Wheel Estate. There are nearly 1,500,000 trailers on the road or lodged at some 18,500 parks in the...
In telling his story of a 12-year-old boy unwanted at home and in trouble at school, Truffaut has capitalized on the youthful exuberance and curiosity of his protagonist. Young Antoine Doinel is often in flight and the main quality of the film is one of swirling motion. Streets...
Rampant self-pity has produced an ethic of irresponsibility: "Blame it on God, the girls, on the government, on heredity, or on environment, on the parents, on the siblings, on the cold war, on the pressures toward conformity, on being unloved and unwanted. But don't blame it on...