Word: restless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suspicion and distrust remain, but the dignity is fast fading-on both sides. The seizure of Alcatraz three years ago by a number of young militants was an early sign that the more restless, more urban Indians of the 1970s would not share the reticence of their reservation-bred elders. The ransacking of the Bureau of Indian Affairs by 600-odd Indian militants who gathered in Washington to demonstrate for needed changes in federal policy is another indication that the old era of pride has given way to a new-and surprisingly delayed-period of violent protest. Offices were torn...
After an Eastern Establishment education-Exeter, Yale College and the Harvard University Business School-Heinz joined the family business. Within three years he had assumed a top sales job, but he was restless. In 1970 he quit to become a lecturer in business administration. After Representative Robert Corbett's death left a House seat vacant in the spring of 1971, Heinz declared his candidacy...
...some fifty years, they still do not know each other completely; the husband reproaches his wife for sleeping at night when he has been restless, and gets the same pettish reprimand in return. But they seem to grow closer and closer, even during their few days in Tokyo, in the face of a new world and the exclusion from the lives of their children. They reach a perfect unity as they side by side gazing out to sea, lonely misfits at a holiday resort, so attuned that even their kimonos match...
...played faultlessly, with Ian Holm as editor of the Times and Anthony Hopkins as Lloyd George especially engaging. Anne Bancroft, who ought to have been perfect as Lady Randolph, is thwarted largely by a part that asks her only to be coquettish or long-suffering. Young Winston suffocates her restless dynamism, just as it does the true power and substance of Churchill's early life...
...meet Pierre first -- out of a job, low on money, bored, restless, anomie personified. He calls on his friend Paul for help on this TV project. Just as Pierre is city-loving, and cynical. Paul is sweet, sincere, imaginative and rustic...