Word: restlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After the Trojan Paris elopes with Menelaus's wife Helen, the Greek kings and their armies converge on Aulis, from where, under the command of Menelaus's brother, Agamemnon, they will sail to reclaim the woman. There is no wind, however, to blow their sails, and the army becomes restless and angry under the intense heat. The prophet Calchas tells Agamemnon that in order for the gods to provide a wind, he must sacrifice his eldest daughter, Iphigenia. Horrified by the idea at first, Agamemnon soon yields to his brother's urgings and his own ambition; he sends for Iphigenia...
Here and there, democracy fared well. Not, however, in South Africa, where the government of Prime Minister John Vorster cracked down harder than ever upon a restless but dispirited black majority and banned or arrested many of the country's leading voices of dissent. But in Spain, after four decades of repressive dictatorship, more than 20 million voters turned out peacefully to accomplish what Spanish newspapers called "a triumph of moderation." Parties of both the far left and far right were rejected in favor of a middle-of-the-road government headed by Premier Adolfo
INVENTORS have a way of getting bored with their creations, and would-be magazine mogul Jann Wenner has proven to be yet another restless mind too impatient to busy himself with perfecting what he gave birth to. As his personal plaything Rolling Stone magazine approached its tenth birthday, Wenner evidently decided that major changes were in order. First came the announcement earlier this year that the magazine would move its main offices from San Francisco-America's rock & roll center at the time of Rolling Stone's founding a decade ago-to-the center of media glamour and respectability, Manhattan...
...hurt Pomme more deeply than they can be hurt themselves. But the plot asks you to believe a capacity for hurt in Pomme so extreme that it will send her to a sanitarium. When Francois and Pomme break up, you can see she has already begun to become restless, yet her down-to-earth resilience unaccountably fails her. Why, in the last fifteen minutes, must Goretta turn his lighthearted film into something as heavy as The Story of Adele...
...increasing operating deficit. He cannot build three or four different realistic sets; even with plywood, the expense would run a production close to $1 million. He must economize, but still make opera look grand. He should also take no more than a few seconds changing scenes within acts, the restless bottoms of Met patrons being what they are. Voilà! the unit set, that occasional blessing and frequent curse of modern stagecraft...