Word: uprootedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When other interest groups appear which have no connection with the three occupational organizations, the government will try to bring them into the fold, offering money, rewards, etc. If a group refuses to cooperate, the government will often use harsh physical force. In the government's eyes, the worst sin...
One of Britain's foremost students of Russian affairs here describes the deportation from their homelands in the Caucasus of the entire populations of eight small nations. The Soviet pretext during World War II was that all those people were traitorous. By Conquest's calculation, about 1.6 million...
The experience was shattering to the young man of 15. He saw his parents, to whom he was deeply attached, uprooted and destroyed. He himself suffered the pangs of a refugee childhood in New York City. And it was only in the American army of occupation during World War II...
On one side, England's historic Bamburgh Castle loomed up on a craggy promontory above the North Sea. On the other, hundreds of movie extras, dressed as medieval soldiers, crouched behind uprooted spruce and pine trees. Suddenly, groaning and clanking, huge siege catapults hurled fireballs through the air toward...
But back to the problem at hand-elitism. We are being bred as elitists, and taught to impugn the values of the middle class. Our bowling alley background is being purged from our consciousness, and we are subtly instructed to think of a bowling ball as a dirty thing. Take...