Word: uprootedness
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THERE IS, however, one solid reason for the unease of adolescence, and it is very simple: one's body is literally changing. You grow taller, stronger, features change, the need for sex becomes greater. As your body changes, you feel out of touch with it, unfamiliar, uprooted, disoriented--and the...
First reactions were ebullient. "Any news concerning a bombing halt is a relief," said Banker Nguyen Xuan Oanh. "The conclusion is that the war will end." A farmer uprooted from his Mekong Delta paddies planned to "go to my rice again." Adding to the euphoria, the government pushed the 10...
Thousands of young, college-educated girls are uprooted from China's great cities every year and sent off to the boondocks for the stint at manual labor that is demanded of intellectuals in Chairman Mao Tse-tung's domain. In Peking alone, 40,000 coeds from the class...
For the young protagonist of Sheed's feverish short novel, the equivalent of Dickens' blacking factory is a backwater English secondary school called Sopworth College. Jimmy Bannister, 15 and feckless, is suddenly uprooted from his American adolescence and packed off to Sopworth. Both menacing and seedy, Sopworth gives...
For ten years, the aspirations of France and the dictates of De Gaulle have appeared to be inseparable?a tribute to both his undeniable greatness and his penchant for saying it so often that people believed it. Last week the myth that France and De Gaulle are one lay shattered...