Word: restless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Norway. He is married, has children; but his past is not blameless. A girl named Anna Livia haunts his slumbers; he has been guilty of various misdeeds, brawls and shortcomings. The story opens with Earwicker just lapsing into drowsy slumber, continues through the night, through sleep that is now restless, now deep, visited by dreams, nightmares, confused recollections of the past day, of the past years. It is a stream of subconsciousness...
...figures are correct, almost one-fourth of our national income is spent in recreation. We spend it in hot-dogs, automobiles, movies, road-houses and restless movement; one of the largest items is the two-hour vigil at the shrine of football on autumnal Saturdays. The play we love with such spirit is often mechanical play. It is play where we sit huddled close together in darkened auditoriums watching a small lighted space where two figures pound or hug each other. We watch, but we do not play...
...anything which threatens to make epochs for him. Yale has perhaps been more successful than Harvard in adapting the traditional forms of American collegiate life to the changed conditions and uncertain responsibilities of modern life and modern endowment funds; her graduates are likely to show less of that restless dissatisfaction with the contemporary university educational process than college graduates of other institutions. And abruptly to break up the traditional pattern of the university into a theoretical scheme of more or less self-contained "quadrangles" seems to some an effort to group men by architecture rather than by the more natural...