Word: uprootedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last Monday night Psalms for Two Davids was set for dress rehearsal and the Loeb seemed upside-down. There was no elevated stage, and a slice of seats had been uprooted and transplanted to the other side, facing opposite. For the first time in over ten years (apparently) a Loeb...
There are those who still think that the orphaned moments of Nixon's past will catch up with him. They see the meaningful men of history rising from identifiable sources and building their purposes and characters on fixed principles that, even when bent along the way, tend to endure...
AFTER a quarter-century of war, Viet Nam confronts problems of such magnitude that they seem insurmountable. The area has been ravaged by 15 million tons of explosives, more than were used by U.S. forces in all of World War II.* Of this total, almost 80% has been inflicted on...
LAST BOOKS READ: Script for the screen version of Let's Scare Jessica to Death, Primate Behavior of the Uprooted by Irwin DeVore and Oscar Handlin, and We Love You Bruins.
An authority on American inmigrants, Handlin graduated from Brooklyn College in 1934 and received his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1940. Handlin first book , "Boston Immigrants" won the 1941 Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association, and his "the Uprooted" won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1951. Handlin`s most...