Word: restless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...steps of Montgomery's pristine white capital, a chorus and band performed a newly composed tribute to the Governor, Hope for the Common Man. Inside the small antebellum legislative chamber, the restless crowd quieted to a tense hush. At the main entrance, George Wallace appeared in his wheelchair, his wife Cornelia walking with him. When he reached the podium, Wallace lifted himself up with no visible effort. His chin thrust forward, flashing a small, almost contemptuous smile, he showed that he could stand without leaning on his hands by raising his arms-ostensibly to shoot his cuffs. The audience...
...first big break in Budapest on March 11, 1938, when he was allowed to conduct Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. The first act went well, Solti recalls, but with the start of the second act, the singers started making mistakes while the audience grew raucously restless. To his relief Solti later learned that his conducting was not the cause: word had reached the audience that Hitler was on his way into Vienna, only 130 miles away...
...Republican Congressmen. The impact of Watergate may well make it harder for Nixon to keep fellow Republicans in Congress behind him on critical votes over the budget. The federal bureaucracy, which Nixon has been trying to manage through second-level officials dispatched from the White House, may now prove restless and untameable. These White House agents have lost much of their clout. Many Republican politicians throughout the nation may move to dissociate themselves further from the dark and billowing cloud...
Picasso's effect on the sociology of art was in no way less radical. That restless inventiveness provoked in collectors the expectations about stylistic "turnover" that, now built into the market, are such a strain on more single-minded talents. It is to Picasso that we owe, in no small way, the oppressive image of the artist as a superstud that only now is coming under attack. He has even had a degree of political effect: Guernica, the mural canvas he painted in protest against the fascist ruin of Spanish democracy, is certainly the most disseminated work of political...
...passive student role is not suitable for all kinds of learning, and many youths get restless. "Shielded from responsibility, they become irresponsible," says Coleman. Somehow businesses and other enterprises should be paid to take adolescents on, teach them skills and give them a broad contact with adults that they now never have. Meanwhile, their schooling would continue elsewhere-reduced to the teaching of straight intellectual skills. Says Coleman: "I would characterize this approach as a breaking apart of the school." It would also be a new approach to racial and class integration. When a child has a number of educational...