Word: vertigo
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...such people around Cambridge. Harvard bakes its mandarins good, and we don’t fly around the system so much as prop it up. There are some awfully complicated explanations for why this is the case. What matters in the end though, I think, is the fear of vertigo, of free-falling—that is, the mistake of not taking human agency seriously enough...
...upon coming here, I noticed that my country vanished off the map. All the pegs that anchored my culture and my history were gone,” she says. “I felt that I was coming adrift from my cultural mooring, which created an intense sense of vertigo,”“It’s about fear and control and longing, and explores how people desperately want to connect but maintain life via surface means,” Evans says. “The play confronts how people manage the chaos of life through superficial...
...Firstly, the treaty includes a permanent presidency to cement the sense of unity among member-states and avoid the constant vertigo of the many different agendas resulting from rotating presidencies. Moreover, it proposes two other important structural changes that would curb bureaucratic issues within the EU. Once the treaty is passed, the EU will achieve legal personality as one entity and, at the same time, voting procedures will be modified to address what critics have baptized “a democratic deficit.” Such changes will increase the EU’s legitimacy both legally and practically...
...Gutierrez felt some vertigo as well, specifically when she realized she was not receiving emails about fellowships advising...
...last time we had this feeling of financial vertigo was when the Internet bubble popped seven years ago. But this is much worse: the value of our homes is collapsing. For generations, rising home prices have been central to our general sense of well-being...