Word: restlessness
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Older family members had every reason to wish that they had taken themselves and their loved ones on a journey to anywhere other than a theater full of restless children. The novel's intricate plot is-paradoxically-simplified into near incomprehensibility. Its rich characterizations are reduced to banality. Anthony Newley, who also composed the film's stupefying score, plays Quilp, a scheming moneylender whose machinations reduce Nell (Sarah Jane Varley) and her grandfather to begging. Newley works himself into a great lather turning Quilp's villainy into a parody of evil so broad that the most innocent...
Speaking with President Horner at the Biennial Conference of the Alumni Schools and Scholarships committees, Bok's brief talk dealt with equal access, financial aid to middle class students, and minority recruiting--all in terms of Harvard's "honest, restless search to do things better...
McCann's hands were restless at his sides while he listened to his second group of students--the "Funky Butt Band," as he had dubbed them a few minutes before--play a few more choruses of a simple melody he had given them to play to a funky beat...
Jennie tangling with her mother-in-law, the Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Kempson), who has the family's fortune and all of its nastiness; Jennie wrangling with her disgruntled son Winston (Warren Clarke) over the accounts. Both Churchills, it seems, outdid each other in extravagance and a driving, restless ambition...
...Restless Group. A new paperback edition of The Recognitions was published last year by Avon ($2.95), but as Gaddis notes, "For some strange reason, my royalties for the book have always been about $100 a year." During those years he has earned his living as a freelance, writing speeches for top corporate executives, scripts for industrial films, public relations for a drug company. He maintains his headquarters in a small Victorian house overlooking the Hudson River in a village north of New York City. Gaddis has two grown children from a previous marriage...