Word: restlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What Kipling possessed, perhaps, was a vitality too restless to organize for a long, sustained effort. It was a vitality that amounted to genius: the ancient, powerful magnetism of the oral storyteller. Wearing the mask of a Union Jack Englishman, Kipling may have been more of a native than a colonial all along...
...have found a most ironic way out of a financial nosedive caused largely by doubled fuel bills. The government of Iran, one of the nations most instrumental in forcing up petroleum prices, had been negotiating to provide the airline with $300 million so that it could pay off restless American creditors and rebuild working capital. Last week irony was followed by intense disappointment; the deal appeared to have fallen through, leaving Pan Am facing another money squeeze...
...some paradox of perception or memory, and each finds form in a peculiar kind of physical description. The invisible cities bulge with imaginative and very specific detail: Chloe is peopled by "a girl twirling a parasol on her shoulder," "a woman in black, showing her full age, her eyes restless beneath her veil, her lips trembling," "a young man with white hair," and "two girls, twins, dressed in coral." In Eusapia, a city of the dead...
Give Alms. The son of A. Willis Robertson, U.S. Senator from Virginia for two decades, Pat graduated from Yale Law School, failed his bar exam and went into the electronics business. Raised a Southern Baptist, he was restless and unhappy until at 26 he decided to become a minister and studied at New York City's Biblical Seminary. There he became involved with Pentecostalists who were claiming baptism of the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues. He also became something of a fanatic: he sold nearly everything he and his wife owned when she was away. His explanation...
...nage was shattered several years later when Shelley met Mary Godwin, daughter of the genteel radical, William Godwin. He eloped with her-and her stepsister, Claire Clairmont-generously inviting Harriet to join them as a "spiritual" sister. She refused. Shelley and his new entourage set out on years of restless travel, ending with the drowning that, Holmes suggests, Shelley half courted...