Word: uprootedness
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No detail of the newspaper's massive move had been left to chance. The date had been picked in consultation with a meteorological firm which assured the paper that the Windy City would remain calm for the operation. In case of traffic tie-ups at the drawbridges, two big...
Rot was discovered in the stately chestnut trees ringing the Rond-point on Paris' Champs Elysées last week; every one would have to be uprooted. Wrote Le Figaro: "Weakened and tormented by polluted air, the hearts of these great trees empty little by little." Frenchmen saw in...
If much of the world fell for the slogans about the Chinese Reds as mere agrarian reformers, about Nationalist corruption, etc.. it was, says Chiang, partly his government's fault: "We lacked initiative in propaganda and substance in ideology." The Red victory, by Chiang's reckoning, was...
Even in racist South Africa, a whole tribe cannot be uprooted without due process of law. Faced with such tedious proceedings, Minister Verwoerd let it be known that the 410 families of the tribe were themselves quite ready and willing to go. But when Verwoerd's trucks arrived last...
Ironically, the writers of the Lucky Jim school have something to say. They have become authentic chroniclers of Britain's shrinking pains. They are sociocultural D.P.s. uprooted from the class of their birth and ill at ease in the accents of their betters. Enviously they yearn for the privileges...