Word: uprooted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...father was like the banyan tree, that nothing could grow in his shadow. Nothing could be further from the truth. He was like the sun. He allowed everything to grow, including?let us be honest?the weeds." Even before succeeding his mother, Rajiv had set out to uproot some of these weeds, or their progeny...
...seemed there was nothing to do but begin again, elsewhere, in a far different latitude. And so began the Sisyphean strivings, the apotheosis of praxis to the source of all knowledge. What I was trying to uproot and destroy was a part of myself, the very talent that had brought me to Harvard in the first place. I buried my hopes for a career with the great books, and those buried hopes became a throbbing pain...
...live today in the states in which they were born. It is safe to assume that few of those made a prenatal choice of birthplace on the basis of economic, political, social and cultural factors such as those used in Places Rated Almanac. For another, when people as adults uproot from one home to make another elsewhere, they are most often impelled by an event like a new job, almost never by the sheer allure of some other place. Given such realities, the ranking of cities and countries is bound to seem an entirely academic exercise. For people at home...
...result, the University often comes up empty-handed, since many professors are unwilling to uproot their research and family and make an expensive move to a new city. The fact that MIT professors do not have this obstacle makes them especially enticing targets for Harvard offers...
Rosovsky went on in his report to list two of the leading factors: unwillingness to uproot a family, especially if a professor's spouse is employed: and the Faculty's policy of considering age and experience alone in determining salaries--not "star" status, which many Harvard candidates can claim at their current institutions...