Word: uprootedness
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ROTH IS A person divided, and the cause of this schism in his personality shouldn't surprise the reader. In writing about the life of Jews in the U.S., Roth confronts head on his own split between his origins in a Jewish ghetto in New Jersey and the urbane literary...
On a mountainside overlooking Medellin, Colombia, some of South America's poorest families have been uprooted from the garbage dumps where they once foraged and deposited in 4,000 neat, red-tiled homes. At the entrance to the housing development, a large billboard proclaims the author of this generosity: PABLO...
There was no regret at Machel's death among leaders of the Mozambique National Resistance (Renamo), the guerrilla movement that has been fighting Machel's government with arms and logistical support from South Africa. In a statement issued in Lisbon, Renamo said Machel's Frelimo Party "is responsible for innumerable...
Brodsky, 45, is something of an international celebrity and hero. He was already an important young poet in the Soviet Union when he was charged with "social parasitism." Translation: his poetry and bohemian ways did not advance the causes of Communism. Hauling manure on a farm near the Arctic Circle...
Harvard students may not show much concern for uprooted trees in the Yard, but a group of 30 Cambridge residents is out to save a 203-year old beech tree on Massachusetts Ave. from the bulldozer's path.