Word: restless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Refugees," Brecht observed, "are refugees as a result of changes, and their sole object of study is change." For a while these restless minds seemed to be doing Americans' homework for them, analyzing everything from jazz to soap opera to advertising techniques. But the enchantment was one-sided...
This sense of alienation is easy to understand. The subjects of Heilbut's study were, after all, no ordinary group. Most were intellectuals who would have been restless in any culture. It is doubtful, for example, if Brecht ("Wherever I go, they ask me, Spell your name") would have been happy anywhere on earth. Others, like Mann, never really understood the nation they first overpraised, then cursed for being imperfect. Some, like Writer Gerhardt Eisler, were Communists, hypocritical in their horror at the House Un-American Activities Committee. Heilbut's defense of these emigres seems disingenuous: "If Einstein...
Meanwhile, the man is less restless than the average patient But suddenly, at 2.03 a.m. he putts off his chin monitor and tugs on his nasal airflow indicators McMahon swings into action...
...drawn-out war against Iraq has clearly helped the regime to deflect attention from much of its internal strife. The offensive occupies an army that could otherwise become dangerously restless, while allowing Khomeini through assassinations and contrived battlefield accidents to get rid of certain "undesirables." Says Mansouri: "Khomeini is the time bomb the Shah bequeathed to Iran when he fled." It is a lesson even the Soviets have had to learn the hard way. -By Pico Iyer. Reported by Raji Samghabadi/New York
...power to create something beyond his understanding he is not omnipotent." It is extremely difficult to say anything original about such metaphysical matters, and Pilgermann does not. As a theologian, he tends toward the tedious. But the quality of his ideas is less important than the restless energy of the mind that forms them. He is trying to grasp what cannot be known. His aim is not to pursue a single train of logic or evidence but to make sense of the universe that contains him. He is not a thinker but an artist...