Word: uprootedness
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Thus, the protest over the Nanterre closing commanded ready support. Thousands of students soon joined the original demonstrators, and took control of the Latin Quarter as if it were their sovereign territory. Students overturned and burned cars, set up barricades of uprooted paving stones, and fiercely battled police for control...
CHICAGO: Nothin' from Appalachia Many white poor who have left Appalachia still return to the "hollers" to sample the hospitality of home, chow down on pokeweed salad and hog jowls, pop a squirrel with the old .22-cal. "hog rifle," or just "swang on the front stoop." Others are totally...
The $96 million college, to be built with state and federal funds, would, of course, have brought jobs to Newark's whites and Negroes alike. But as originally planned early last year, it would also have uprooted some 20,000 Negroes from housing on the 150 acres of Central...
Most of the criticism was aimed at Antonin Novotny, 63, who lost his job as party boss to Alexander Dubček in January but is still Czechoslovakia's President. Dubček's supporters believe that they will not be able to carry out all the reforms...
Handlin, an expert on American social history, is the author of--among other words--The Uprooted. He is teaching a course this Spring on the development of the American city and taught a course on American economic history in the Fall.