Word: uprootedness
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Her husband persuades her to accompany him across the country to visit their children and grand children, though he does not tell her what she already knows, that she is dying. But she cannot get close to her family; they talk of cars and supermarkets and amusement parks while in...
Mostly for Israel. In its 22-year lifetime, U.J.A. has raised more than $1.3 billion-or nearly $250 for every Jewish man, woman and child in the U.S.-in support of Jewry uprooted by World War II. This year the fund expects to raise $72,740,000, nearly a $10...
Lying on each delegate's desk was a set of "theses" in which Khrushchev proposed a program to resettle peasants in large apartment-house towns called agrogoroda, or agro-cities, from which they could commute to work on the farm. When Khrushchev, as Stalin's farm troubleshooter, first...
Living on Pennies. Most of the exiles are middle-class people uprooted from home and job and just barely scraping by. Arriving in Miami with the single $5 bill allowed them by Castro, they jam into households that already crowd 12 to 18 people into a single house, spend their...
A miko is a kind of medium and rural sorceress to whom people come for advice on marriage and business. This particular miko had a large following of women in what the Japanese politely call "the water trades"-prostitutes, bar hostesses, geishas. The miko told them to worship the Eight...