Word: uprootedness
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One improvement Eskow did note was the Olympic-style net system which anchored the net poles better and alleviated the problems of uprooted floor boards which have plagued the gym in the past.
Now any unsuspecting newcomer to Cambridge may think, "Wow, Charles sure must've suffered from Hurricane Gloria. Look at the widespread devastation, the uprooted trees, the messy underbrush, the..."
In Europe, however, Schwitters was virtually the last great modern artist to be widely misunderstood and rejected. Uprooted from his native Germany by Nazism, he found himself cast adrift at 49, a hard age at which to begin life in exile. He went to Norway, and then in the early...
It was America, really, that got the prize: the enormous energy unleashed by the immigrant dislocations. Being utterly at risk, moving into a new and dangerous land, makes the immigrant alert and quick to learn. It livens reflexes, pumps adrenaline. The immigrant, uprooted, cannot take traditional sustenance from the permanence...
Casimir, the younger brother, is a harmless buccaneer type who wants nothing more than a toreador suit. Devastatingly good looking and basically warm-hearted, he at least posesses a modicum of stability. His brother Jem, however, is a changeling--half monk, half libertine, vacillating wildly between desperate passion and asceticism...