Word: uprootedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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One kid uprooted a parking meter and began bouncing it on the pavement, trying to break the coin box open. This was too much for the policemen waiting near the Square. Suddenly, at a signal, Mass. Ave filled with cops firing tear gas canisters.
STILL, even as Leninism was being uprooted and destroyed in Russia, it was moving toward a new, foreign land. As Lenin lay on his deathbed in 1924, his philosophy had already stolen out of Moscow and crossed the Sinkiang Mountains to the old Manchu empire. Those who seized upon Lininism...
Sartre's play (perhaps his greatest) draws on the lore of Greek mythology to dramatize philosophical dilemmas of "choice" central to his own thought. Unlike Girandoux and Cocteau, so often careless and fanciful in their dramatic use of Greek "gods" and fate, Sartre adopts the symbolic fable of the House...
Moynihan feels free to accept or reject liberal programs on the basis of their practicality. For this reason, he can work with Richard Nixon, who is also a pragmatist, though a conservative one. Both Moynihan and Nixon have questioned whether money alone is the answer to the nation's...
"I would never make a film outside Italy," Federico Fellini said recently. "I would be an alien, unable to understand the subtle shadings of character and gesture. I would be like a tree uprooted, unhealthy out of its own soil." It is canny advice that should have been heeded by...