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...planeload, and return jaded and disillusioned with the difference our presence is making there. Despite Senator John McCain’s assertions to the contrary, Baghdad outside the Green Zone remains dangerous, the Iraqi government remains weak, and the sectarian violence remains endless. And Americans grow ever more restless. America’s Iraq policy is drowning in quicksand, yet our president insists that we can still swim out. Just a few more strokes, he says; all that’s required is one more “surge” of effort. But the harder we struggle, it seems...
...Preternaturally restless, Betty left home at 15 and came to Manhattan, hoping to be noticed by people who could get her into show business. By 17, she had hooked up with Vincent Lopez' decidedly demure band, to which she immediately brought verve and volume. One night when impresario Billy Rose was in the audience, did her madcap routine, picking up the elfin Lopez and carrying him about. That stunt earned her roles in the Broadway musicals Two for the Show and Panama Hattie, where, she later said, her one number was filched by star Ethel Merman on opening night. Betty...
...admit I had very specific expectations before move-in day. Those restless August nights gave way to fever dreams. A tweed-clad throng led the class of 2010 on an inaugural foxhunt through the Old Yard. I developed a close relationship with Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, the manly Kenan Jr. Professor of Government with a heart of gold. We ate at a candlelit table; Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes made clear which fork was for which dish...
...presents few barriers today to a professional seeking change. An oboist can become a lawyer, an accountant an agent, a lawyer a baker--and that may be the problem, says Barry Schwartz, a professor of psychology at Swarthmore College and author of The Paradox of Choice. "There's a restless dissatisfaction that comes from always wondering if there's something better out there," he says. Indeed, more than half of global executives wish they could start over in a different career, according to a survey by search firm Korn/Ferry International. "People define their work as a job, a career...
...laying the groundwork for environmentalism, was altogether disgusted by the new Zeitgeist and gimcracks. "I delight to come to my bearings," he writes in Walden, which he began in the late '40s, "not walk in procession with pomp and parade, in a conspicuous place ... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sit thoughtfully while it goes by. What are men celebrating?" They were celebrating, more or less, the awesome arrival of modernity, thrilled, as well as frightened, by the shock of the new. Here, now, more than 150 years later, in this restless...