Word: restlessness
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...Young and the Restless...
...million followers of As the World Turns, or to Novelist Dan Wakefield, who often bursts into tears at 12:30 when the plangent music of All My Children wells up. At Princeton, something like a quarter of the student body drops everything to watch The Young and the Restless each afternoon. When Agnes Nixon, who created a campus favorite, All My Children, asked a group of Duke University students why they watched the soaps, a young man replied: "It's the only constant in our lives...
...almost all areas?business, the professions, blue-collar work, education, politics, the family?a new sensibility among both men and women has led to more enlightenment?and a restless understanding of how far away sexual equality remains...
...become apathetic or skeptical or wryly amused; we do not turn to ourselves, and assume our own sovereignty, so to speak, as human beings who have a right, even an obligation, to hold on to certain ethical propositions, beliefs, standards-even at a sacrifice. Rather, we become restless, feel dissatisfied with someone or something "out there," and immediately undertake yet another search: so-and-so's new theory; a school that is radically different; or, in another direction, a school that won't give in to recent and suspect innovations. The men and women who settled this country...
...JANS: THE EYES OF AN ONLY CHILD (Columbia; $6.98). In the preholiday avalanche of LPs by major music acts, this attractive album might be overlooked. Using the standard country music themes of loneliness, moving around and adultery, Jans writes in the restless, romantic vein of a young man. Out of Hand, his tale of a hard-lovin' man who meets his match, unfolds against twanging guitars and the gentle percussion of a rural roadhouse band...