Word: restless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turned the restless energy of the country's youth inward, recruiting thousands of students to serve as Red Guards, the ideological shock troops of the Chairman's tumultuous Cultural Revolution. Though students played an often brutal role in the ten-year purge of the country's intellectual elite, their participation in the Cultural Revolution, like the epoch itself, seems to have been a historical aberration. More typically, China's young demonstrators have called for a quickened pace of reform. On April 5, 1976, students swelled the ranks of the 100,000 demonstrators who massed in Peking's Tiananmen Square...
...different colleges before finally earning a degree from Detroit College of Law. Later he drifted from job to job, working unhappily as a law clerk and then as an accountant. "My father always considered him a ne'er-do-well," claims his estranged sister-in-law. But once the restless 29-year-old Boesky arrived on Wall Street in 1966, he would never again be indifferent. He was taken with a specialized form of stock speculation called risk arbitrage. It was a sleepy game then, but Boesky learned to play it with such daring and ruthlessness that he horrified...
...generation of photographers whose conversion to sharp focus from soft-edged pictorialism was the hinge on which the rest of the century's camerawork would turn. By the early 1920s he had already established an international reputation for mildly swoony images in gray-beige tones. He had also grown restless with pictorialism, which took its inspiration from impressionism, symbolism and the damper moments of Whistler. In time, he found a new expressive vocabulary in the angles and hard lines of constructivism and cubism, which he matched to a new photographic method. The focus was sharp. The prints were made directly...
...virtually undistinguishable under his helmet and football gear. At first, the bar's patrons would cheer just the brief mention of Lynch's name on national TV, but after a few years of such random mentioning by Summerall and Frank Gifford and Howard Cosell, they grew restless. They wondered when Fran would duplicate his two-touchdown feat against the Jets. But he never did. He carried the ball only rarely for the Broncos, when Little was hurt, and even then he was just a workmanlike runner. Most of his years were spent on the Broncos' special teams, where he, along...
...Written at different times while Klass was a graduate student in zoology, doing field work in Central America, living in Rome and attending medical school, these stories document in theme--rather than form--a disenchantment with sameness. The thematic concerns are all the same. The stories all speak of restless students who are usually also relentless travelers. You get the feeling there are only a few real characters, chopped up and shooed into all the stories...