Word: restlessness
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...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...reflective and withdrawn.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...
...driving cabs at night because he can't sleep and because he can't find a real life. The city won't let him in even though he'd like to conform, and the fever builds first in his belly and then in his head, making him restless like an animal and nervous like a killer. He hates New York with Biblical fury. Its livid neons, the gaudy robes of the pimps, and the twisting, seething shadows obsess him with a vision of hell...
...city of New Haven has an undefeated football team and the men from Yale should be causing their upcoming foes some restless nights. The Bulldogs, after defeating highly regarded Navy last week--a team that lost to fifth-ranked Michigan by only five points--nipped revitalized Holy Cross by a score of 29-28. Holy Cross, if you care to remember, had no trouble in trouncing Harvard, 33-19. Many observers are wondering which teams, if any, can manage to prevent the Elis from capturing the League title for a third consecutive year...