Word: restlessness
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...Trouble was that the Navy had retired Cook from sea duty last year and made him a captain of the Greenwich Hospital for pensioned sailors, a sinecure that pays ?230 a year, as well as a free suite of rooms, firewood and candles. But Cook, still only 47, was restless. To a friend he confided: "A few months ago, the whole southern hemisphere was hardly big enough for me, and now I am going to be confined within the limits of Greenwich Hospital...
Died. Adolph Zukor, 103, movie pioneer who built Paramount Pictures Corp. and brought the feature film to U.S. audiences; in Los Angeles. A tiny (5 ft. 5 in.), restless dynamo who arrived in the U.S. from Hungary at age 16 in 1889 with $40 to his name, Zukor had a simple formula for success: "Look ahead a little and gamble a lot." In the early 1900s, he and another immigrant furrier, Marcus Loew, gambled on the fledgling moving picture business-first with a string of penny arcades featuring flickering, hand-cranked "peep-shows," later with storefront nickelodeons. Convinced that...
...Clean admitted that the Communists had gone through "a significant evolution during the past ten years." But, he added, their party "is not mature enough to govern; its labored path to democracy still has a long way." Without Zaccagnini, the Christian Democrats could find it difficult to hold younger, restless voters on the party's left...
...days after graduation, Endicott Peabody Jr. '71 went out to Colorado and joined the Colorado National Bank as a management trainee. "There was a lot of ferment and people who were restless and anxious to do something about the Vietnam war in some form," Peabody said last week about his undergraduate stay. "I kind of feel sorry that it happened when I was there or that it happened at all. We got away from the college experience--we were nationally oriented...
...reading about Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan or John Connally, would anyone have the vivid sense of these men that so many Americans now have? This is what television news does best. The question is whether it should try to do more: whether a medium that must first satisfy the restless eye is best suited to serving the reasoning mind. Can the camera-that-talks ever hope to be as thorough in putting across ideas and issues as the printed word, which the undistracted mind can concentrate on? Each to his own best role...