Word: restless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...term that provides a sly, apt link between novelist and revivalist. Each, Wilson suggests, is trying in his way to explain the random nature of fate. In both the father's febrile sermons and the son's cool observation, there is no justice, no fairness. There is, however, the restless energy of a fine emerging writer...
...working as a Western Union messenger boy in Chicago, he won an appointment to Annapolis in 1918. At the Naval Academy, he stuck to his studies, shunned sports and dating, and graduated in the top fifth of his class. After more than 20 years as an electrical engineer, the restless Rickover in 1946 was posted to Oak Ridge, Tenn., where research was under way % on atomic reactors. Rickover believed the Navy could extend its reach and free itself of the need to refuel ships if nuclear power plants could be squeezed into submarines' tiny hulls. Rickover's work eventually spawned...
...challenge of any parent accompanying a child to central Florida: making sure rapturous expectations are not soured by the long lines, infant attention spans and high technology on the fritz. Standing at the entrance to Orlando's Sea World, another father tried to tamp his daughter's restless anticipation: "Hyper down, honey--we're only gonna see a lot of fish...
...that the work of a Mickey Spillane or The Adventures of Superman travesty the novel," Critic Leslie Fiedler noted in 1955, "forget that the novel was long accused of travestying literature." Pamela and Tom Jones were, in a sense, the Magnum, P.I. and The Young and the Restless of their day. By 18th century standards, the new American flag must have seemed gaudy and flamboyant -- patriotic pop; and the national anthem composed in its honor celebrated naval war as a kind of giddy pageant...
...mind is swift and shrewd, almost awesome in its ability to grasp and retain material. He takes a lot from his voracious reading. "This morning," he wrote recently in his diary, "I read an hour or so of The Razor's Edge (Somerset Maugham's novel about a restless man searching for inner understanding). It always had good meanings for me." Another morning he rereads portions of Thomas Jefferson's autobiography. "One thing struck me," wrote Cuomo, "the logical forcefulness of his debate...