Word: restless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mass of undergraduates are uninterested in a debate; if it is conducted under the iron-bound conventions that characterize the old "American" system the audience is bored; and if it is conducted under the so-called Oxford system, the audience is restless...
...Schumann was next with his Concerto in A Minor, with Pianist Alfred Cortot to spin the important thread cunningly. Then came a stranger, Jacques Ibert, with three pieces from his ballet suite, Les Rencontres, given its U. S. premiere a fortnight ago by the Boston Symphony. In conflicting keys, restless violins traced his vagaries of flower girls and Creoles in the Debussy manner, gossiping women, fishwives taken rag and bone from Stravinsky. Critics damned it, called it dull, found the Mozart and the Schumann a little tiresome too. They blamed the first on the breathless pat-a-pat reading...
Anton Chekhov's plots are not exciting. His craft is to introduce, in rambling stage narrative, bits of daily life, dull except to the few who love inspired satire. Theatregoers who seek effortless entertainment are warned to avoid The Three Sisters. So consistently is the mood of restless boredom maintained on the stage that it will surely transmit itself to any half-asleep onlooker. To those who can emerge from the day's fracas of commercial activity with relish for intellectual adventure, The Three Sisters will prove one of the season's delights...
Marshall Field had been born on a New England farm himself-at Conway, Mass. Restless, he had gone to raw Chicago and had been hired to work for the general mercantile firm of Cooley, Farwell & Co., which was doing a big wholesale business with the towns of the prairies. This was in 1856. Marshall Field became a partner. The firm became Field, Palmer & Leiter. Potter Palmer withdrew and the name was changed to Field, Leiter & Co. Marshall Field became a rich man and became so through two business principles most unusual in the U. S. before the Civil...
Like all U. S. voyagers in England, he enjoyed the quiet, the courtesy, the fine products of the English specialty shop. These, the result of intense retail competition, were typical of 19th Century British trade. It was pleasant to shop in them. But, to the mind of Mr. Selfridge, restless in retirement, they seemed expensive to operate, each with its separate overhead charges. The U. S. department store, while more raucous, was more economical and, too, more convenient for customers. It should be possible to merge the advantages of both the British and the U. S. systems of retailing...