Word: uprootedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nixon shared many of the prejudices of the uprooted California lower middle class from which he came. He believed that Jews formed a powerful cohesive group; that they were predominantly liberal; that they put Israel's interests above all else; that they were more sympathetic to the Soviet Union...
It is getting more difficult for her to make cheerful allowances for the fans who pursue Joe and track him even to their home. In the storm the week of the Cowboy game, several large trees on their property were uprooted and turned on their sides. Joe mourned the loss...
In many fields, unions are being forced to get along by going along. For years the United Auto Workers has taken socially activist positions on many issues, including civil rights, the environment and welfare. But economic pressures on the auto industry have forced the union generally to support relaxed auto...
The Kitaj show (which will go to his native Cleveland in December, and to Dusseldorf in February 1982) begins, as it were, on Weimar modernism, on the strains, dislocations and terrible urgencies of a time that Kitaj, 48, is too young to have experienced directly-Europe in the '20s...
Since that is what Islamic fundamentalists do, Among the Believers reads like a long-drawn-out standoff. Naipaul's report is indeed filled with fascinating details. He carefully questions his subjects about their pasts and often evokes poignant sketches of uprooted lives leading to inchoate yearnings. His prose evokes...