Word: uprootedness
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His fleeting contact with Shura, the young woman apparently uprooted and travelling aimlessly, with whom he falls in love, is his first deep emotional involvement. Her sense of the hopelessness of their situation, perhaps of their entire country, is contrasted with his seeming self-confidence in a poignant way.
Duddy is not part of the immigrant generation, but to begin with he too had little more than fifty cents in his picket. And we feel the same respect for him as we do for those uprooted souls, forced throughout this century to flee Europe and to make their way...
(3 of 11) strongwilled, emotional and impatient." Some who were troubled by Richard Nixon's apparent rootlessness, that strange plastic quality of speech, thought and behavior that some how failed to suggest the traces of a home town or a home region, blamed this phenomenon on California, often seen...
Time on the Cross addresses itself to these questions anyway, in one of its most important chapters, on the slave family. Fogel and Engerman maintain that slave families were strong, nuclear patriarchal families--just the reverse of the stereotype popularized by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, or the picture of uprooted slaves...
Remember: When I came to Harvard in 1967 there were no coed dorms; there was a coat-and-tie requirement at all meals; there was no black studies program, in any form; there was no University commitment to relocate tenants it uprooted; there was no organization for gay students; marijuana...