Word: restless
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Academic Priests. Few urge that gospel more ardently than Ivan Illich, 45, a restless Vienna-born U.S. citizen and Roman Catholic priest who has resigned his clerical functions. For the past ten years, Illich has dominated a free university in Cuernavaca, Mexico called the Center for Intercultural Documentation. While training social workers for jobs in Latin America, the center has become a crucible for provocative ideas...
Certainly there is more beyond Harvard than within it and one would be a fool not to be restless...
...fled rather than pay it. Only 25% of today's Atlantans are natives, and Dickey feels alienated from them: "The most valuable thing about the South was its sense of community. This is slowly disappearing with the onslaught of industry and the change it brings. There are restless, nomadic people coming to the South. There is a loss of grace, of leisure. Things will go and never reappear...
...many countries in the area underwent the shattering upheaval of a switchover from rural-to urban-dominated societies. At the same time, they experienced a baby boom that has given West Germany an under-18 population of 28%, England 29%, France 30%. Today problems of urban blight, restless youth, insufficient housing and environmental pollution hit Europe's urban centers with comparable force, particularly the four major "conurbations" -London with its 11.5 million inhabitants, Paris with 8,000,000, the Rhine-Ruhr complex with 10.5 million, and the Dutch megalopolis, stretching from Utrecht to Rotterdam, with 4,000,000. Britain...
...evidence of his work, John M. Johansen is a restless eccentric among U.S. architects. He seems willing to try anything once. Pecking among the styles, he has, in the past, gone through the routine Miesian curtain-wall phase, made his bow to Italian Baroque in his design for the U.S. embassy in Dublin and constructed a house in Connecticut framed like a ramifying tepee with 150 telephone poles (they were bolted together under the direction of a Norwegian shipwright). He also has designed buildings, like the Mechanic Theater in Baltimore, of an almost Egyptian heaviness. Currently his office is lodged...