Word: adrift
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...endlessly on themes of violence and aggression that they become, to the young at least, an accepted part of life. Wholesale renunciation of traditional values -the death of faith, the obsolescence of marriage, the campus as a locale for riot, the cop seen as pig-casts the adolescent adrift from all moorings. In this respect, according to Zimbardo, vandalism is "an attempt to show you have some effect on your environment. Destructive acts are chosen because they are more readily seen and because they are often more easily accomplished than constructive ones...
...Adrift at Harvard, Morgan accepted a tenure offer from Stanford, and Bobo, who is her husband, decided to leave with her. The former Tishman and Diker professor of sociology and of African and African American studies, Bobo was one of the University’s premier sociologists and a member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. He also served as acting chair of Af Am while Gates was on leave during the 2003-2004 academic year...
...Although the quiet, Harvard-educated technocrat made a flurry of public appearances just after the earthquake, his visits to disaster areas have tapered off, adding to the image of government aloofness. The absence of strong crisis management has led to a feeling that De la Madrid's government is adrift. Says a Western diplomat in Mexico City: "The government seems to be gripped by inertia...
Like many other students during Mitchell’s lectures last year, I would often be cast adrift by a string of cryptic references just to be hooked again with an engaging cinematic argument...
...told TIME that he was "bedazzled by the problems and demands of the job," he knew whereof he spoke. For Sony's woes are well known. The company that once had a magic touch-creating not just the Walkman, but the Trinitron TV and the PlayStation too-has gone adrift in an age of increasing competition and digital convergence. Its core electronics business, which accounts for more than 60% of revenue (but lost $339 million last year), has been beset by successful competitors in virtually all its product lines, ranging from Samsung televisions to Kodak digital cameras. Most humiliating, Sony...