Word: restlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...February of David's second year of [secondary school] the U.S.S. Maine was blown up by a submarine mine in Havana harber and what followed ... stirred up in this restless and rudderless young man his first urge to take up the white man's burden. The sense of America's inescapable destiny of exporting her blessings to all who might be wanting was in the air David breathed...
...problem. Constitutionally, executive authority is in the hands of Vice President Sarney, the former chairman of the military-backed Democratic Social Party, which ceded power to Neves following his Jan. 15 election by Brazil's 686- member electoral college. Nor was there much concern that the military would grow restless: Army Minister Leonidas Pires Gon(pi202)alves told the press that "the Brazilian army will comply exactly with what is prescribed in the constitution." Political leaders of all persuasions pledged their support to Sarney, and the 548-member Congress kept up business as usual. Said Chamber of Deputies President Ulysses...
...restless manner belies his words, however. Though he may have dodged apprehension, Veliotis is not a free man. There have been three attempts on his life, he asserts, and threats to his wife and two children as well. To ensure the family's safety, the villa has bulletproof windows, a sophisticated alarm system and a brace of German shepherds patrolling the grounds...
...restless body, which never spared itself in sport or danger, was destined to give him one last proud gallop at the end." That fugitive entry from F. Scott Fitzgerald's notebooks characterized his fellow Princetonian Hobey Baker, a man who seemed to have been written rather than born. He was blond, handsome, wealthy, the ultimate preppy more than two generations before the word was coined. In his college days (circa 1912) he led Princeton's football and hockey teams, dazzled classmates and debutantes, then when war came impulsively joined the celebrated flyers of the Lafayette Escadrille. When a headline later...
Stokowski had molded the orchestra into a peerless instrument that he controlled with finger-tip accuracy. Ormandy's achievement was not only to preserve Stokowski's legacy but, in some ways, to surpass it. He was no mere caretaker. If he lacked Stokowski's restless adventurousness in presenting modern music, he nevertheless championed new works by his contemporaries Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich. If his scrupulously maintained low profile was the antithesis of Stokowski's flamboyant showmanship, he nevertheless insisted on a uniformly high performance standard, which can be heard on the hundreds of recordings he made with the Fabulous Philadelphians. Above...