Word: restlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stakes were high, and Ronald Reagan knew it as he stepped to the lectern of the 14th-floor dining room in Washington's National Press Club last Wednesday morning. In the restless cities of Western Europe, anti-American demonstrations on behalf of pacifism and neutralism posed a new threat to the unity of the NATO alliance (see WORLD). In part, the protests were encouraged and exploited by Moscow, which in recent months has mounted a skillful propaganda campaign to block the stationing, primarily in West Germany, of new NATO nuclear missiles. Compounding the problem was Reagan himself, whose harsh...
Would they? Would Harvard students be taken in by a grinning hypocrite who came glad-handing his way down to Lowell House to pacify the natives whenever they got restless? Some of Brewster's stunts seem so obvious as to insult the intelligence even of Yale. A year ago, for example, Brewster spoke in front of the Yale Political Union, an apolitical student forum, and gained national publicity for his proposal that any Yale president's term be "reviewed" by the Yale Coproration every seven years. Whatever that meant--since no president has tenure and can be fired...
...from the inmates," he says. "I was also uneasy about the profession of medicine. It was there that the question was planted: What is medical power? What is the authority that permits it?" After teaching psychopathology in Paris, and then French at Sweden's University of Uppsala, the restless young Foucault held official positions in Warsaw and Hamburg. Out of his wanderings, internal and external, came Madness and Civilization, which begins with a poetic evocation of the medieval ships of fools-those wandering hulks that really did bear captive cargoes of madmen away from their own communities...
Still, as last spring's returns indicate, a significant number of Med Area secretaries and technicians are restless enough to support the uncertainty of a unionized workplace instead of the status quo. The labyrinthine road to unionization is one of the biggest obstacles District 65 faces, particularly when the resources of Harvard's formidable legal team are marshalled against the organization effort...
...reflective and withdrawn. Like many men of power, he had an almost carnal relationship with authority. He could hold his own with small talk, but on deeper acquaintance it became clear that it bored him. He much preferred to spend his idle time in solitary reflection in his restless peregrinations around his beloved country...