Word: restlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gargano had dropped out of Quincy High School at 17 to join the Marines. After a three-year hitch, he returned home early last year. He did not actively seek a job. "He was restless," says his mother Mary Gargano. "He wanted to get back in the Marines within 90 days so he wouldn't lose his rank." Gargano, then 21, re-enlisted last June. He took part in the Grenada invasion, then was sent to Lebanon. He had been there less than two months when he landed in a helicopter near the temporary U.S. embassy in Beirut. Gunmen...
...Cole Porter, gathered by Musicologist Robert Kimball, is a model of typography, design and scholarship. The oversize book can lie indolently on a piano, ready to recall the hits of four decades. Because shows are arranged in chronological order, the reader can watch Porter's growth from restless experimenter to self-assured master. Early on, the songwriter attempted to overturn the bromides of his epoch. When saccharine "Mammy" tunes permeated Broadway, he celebrated a black man who journeyed back to Tennessee only to miss "the great big tall skyscrapers/ And the elevated's roar,/ And he longed...
...which I am. Now this is going to be one duck with brass knuckles." After serving as a World War II correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, he wrote columns for Figaro Litteraire, Punch, the Daily Mail of London and any number of American newspapers to finance the restless trips that took over his life. He covered everything from political conventions to the Viet Nam War, which he supported nearly to the bitter end. By then his oddly incompatible circle of friends came to include both Jazz Guitarist Eddie Condon and Lyndon Johnson. When, nearly 60 and plagued...
...lock on the legislative process has long gone unrivaled by his elected colleagues. He has held the prestigious job of Speaker of the House for the past eight years--longer than anybody else since the early days of the 19th century. But now, Massachusetts has come alive with the restless spirit of democratic reform and, for the first time, the autocratic McGee has been seriously challenged. Furthermore, in this, his moment of vulnerability, all the signs indicate that a momentous revolution in the age-old form of Massachusetts representative government has begun...
Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason. Times are changing in western Kentucky, the setting for these tales of restless wives, footloose truckers and feisty senior citizens...