Word: restless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traditional job for middle-aged Mother-helping out at the charity headquarters, pitching in for the hospital drive, clerking for pin money at the local dress shop-is less and less attractive to the restless new breed of American woman, educated to a level of intellectual expectation that her grandmother never knew. This new U.S. woman had a college education and considered a career-or had a brief one-before marriage. With the children out of the house or at least able to fend for themselves, she is looking for a job that provides her with a sense of accomplishment...
...number of other fields should make it easier, not harder, to switch into the program after the beginning of the sophomore year. The shift can still be a relatively minor one in terms of course requirements and is more likely to reflect intelligent re-evaluation of concentration than restless dissatisfaction...
...what Grosse meant. "The key element of my work is the balance of contrasting things," he says. He seeks with the brevity of his brushstroke what he calls the "concept of bipolarity": the yin-yang principle of gentle seesawing between the male and female, the calm and the restless, always seeking the ultimate equation that man can never quite strike...
...John Osborne. Every age paints the portrait of past genius in its own image. The convention of the 20th century is that a genius must be tortured. He must be physically or psychologically ill, agonizingly unsure of himself, seething with inner violence, driven by morbid fears and furies, restless beyond a dream of peace, a man who draws his breath in pain and his inspiration from despair. If he is a hero, it is in spite of his weaknesses, not because of his strengths. If this hero is a religious genius, he must display an absolute conviction...
...crowd, most of it standing and packed shoulder to shoulder, began getting restless. But its attention was caught by a 25-year-old Alabama Negro named John Lewis, aggressive chairman of aggressive SNICK...