Word: restless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...puts the twelve convicts in fighting shape and communicates to them the we-row-together-or-we're-sunk notion. Their mission is blowing up a chateau-load of German generals, but the main problem is getting the convicts to work as a team. They're of course restless under authority. Still, Marvin--no convict, but not a sweet-talking guy--gives the officers in charge of him a little hell...
...once again, thanks to the American Shakespeare Festival, we are able to witness the stunning story of Antigone, who, believing that the soul of an unburied body was condemned to restless wandering throughout eternity, defied the order of King Creon, her uncle, by scattering earth on the rotting corpse of her slain brother Polyneices, with the full knowledge that the penalty for so doing was death...
...church's ministers were estimated a few years ago to be divided about half and half between biblically-grounded, prophetic-minded, change oriented pastors and biblically-grounded, pastorally minded, counselling pastors. Most of them appear to be restless as they face the problems of their people and the needs of our society...
...Polish-born author, a naturalized U.S. citizen, says that he drew upon the recollections of 700 Poles, Germans, Englishmen and Frenchmen to get his material; and it is otherwise obvious that many of the episodes here are factual. But even in warfare, carnage is relieved by inactivity or restless boredom. The only respite Kuniczak gives his readers is short inconsequential conversations and brief bursts of attempted Joycean lyricism. Laboriously, he relates the personal agonies of a one-armed Polish general and his mistress, a disillusioned American correspondent, a Jewish conscript from the Warsaw ghetto and an idealistic young Nazi officer...
...together, and it is safe to say that the HPC will keep playing it as long as it can. But, as the Radcliffe hunger strike, the organized movement for parietal reform, and the growing pressure for off-campus living at both Harvard and Radcliffe indicate, the natives are getting restless...