Word: uprootedness
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Perhaps the most provocative part of the book comes in Patterson's analysis of what he calls the "intellectual treachery" of America's group of neo-conservative once-liberal Jews. These champions of new ethnicity are, he observes, by and large second or third generation immigrants, uprooted from their European...
To 2.5 million or more Jews who perished at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, Mengele personified the insane, systematic brutality of Hitler's Third Reich.* As the shocked, uprooted prisoners arrived by rail at Auschwitz, Mengele, always impeccably turned out in a dress SS uniform, was the first person...
At the corner of Garden St. and Concord Ave., city landscapers prepared for spring planting yesterday by digging up last year's tulips and handing the uprooted flowers to surprised passers-by.
For a volume that should benefit from the vast store of recent revisionist views, there are unpardonable omissions. Davis tells at length the tragedy of the Indians of the East, uprooted and sent West on the Trail of Tears. But in the next section, Colleague David Herbert Donald (who writes...
The recent "white roots" phenomenon is a reversal of U.S. tradition. In other periods, immigration was the sincerest form of flattery. Many of the populations that came to the U.S. were in flight from the past. To them, the concept of a new world was no metaphor: for the first...