Word: restless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This move satisfied the banks and they promised not to take any legal action against the city until after the referendum. But even with the banks temporarily placated the city's financial difficulties are far from being over. Cash-flow problems persist and other creditors are becoming restless...
...built some of its canonical late buildings, notably his own glass house on his estate at New Canaan (1959) and, with Mies, Manhattan's Seagram Building (1958), which survives as the virtual Parthenon of glass-grid architecture. But unlike some other men of his generation, Johnson kept his restless, stylish sense of incongruity and his loathing of repetition. He is the Balanchine of architecture. His range is wide, running from the Renaissance monumentalism of the A T & T building to the airy glass cathedral now in progress for a California hot-gospeller, Robert Schuller...
Lasch detects narcissism nearly everywhere, in the buzz words of the "human potential" movements, in the "pseudo needs" created by advertisers for restless consumers, in the adulation of celebrities whose only claim is that they are well known, in business and government that have a greater concern for credibility than for truth. He warns of creeping trivialization that downgrades history as nostalgia, and educators as socializers rather than conveyors of knowledge. Literature is trivialized by absurdists, emotions by promiscuity, and in the locker rooms of professional athletics, Lasch sniffs the odor of terminal degradation. Sport, once the arena of heroes...
...explanation for the tradition of terror in California, and particularly in San Francisco, is that the area is a mecca for restless dreamers. The mark of the 1849 gold rush is still pervasive. Writes Kevin Starr in Americans and the California Dream: "The state remained, after all, a land characterized by an essential selfishness and an underlying instability, a fixation upon the quick acquisition of wealth, an impatience with the more subtle premises of human happiness." Of the 1960s, when some 1,000 people a day fled west, Joan Didion wrote in Slouching Towards Bethlehem: "Adolescents drifted from city...
Grasshopper on the Road (Harper & Row; $4.95), by Arnold Lobel, is a picaresque for kids. On his trek, the restless insect meets beetles who carry signs (KISS ME IT'S MORNING), neurotically clean houseflies, worms who bathe in apples, and mosquitoes who follow rules even when they are nonsensical. Like all individualists (and most children), the hero marches to a different summer. Lobel's drawings accompany him with a jaunty cast who have as many legs as a chorus line, and a lot more...