Word: uprootedness
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When Hoffmann was a young boy in the 1940s, he and his family were uprooted from their home in Austria, as Gerhardt recounted in his speech.
Because of their Semitic looks, Gypsies were often thought by Europeans to be Arabs (the word Gypsy is itself a corruption of Egyptian). Fonseca accepts the scholarly consensus that the Gypsies left their original homeland in northern India for Persia and points west in the 10th century, probably as captives...
Which creased face of age, which inconsolable howl from a child, could distinguish some nominal victor from vanquished? Scores of thousands of Croatian Serbs flowed to Serbia, Bosnian Croats to Croatia and Muslims from centuries-old homelands in Bosnia to the last strongholds of their community. As foreign observers adduced...
The modern world is--at least as Shaw memorably conceived it--a place where pieties must be uprooted, conscientiously yet wittily; we must be deadly serious in our every flippancy. This year's festival includes a pair of lively, chatty Shaw productions, You Never Can Tell and The Philanderer.
Though many of the uprooted are firmly resettled in new homes around the country, the government estimates that 1 million South Africans could be involved in the planned redistribution, including blacks who would like to own land but have never been able to do so. If a program of such...