Word: restlessness
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...bring about the grand reforms-notably narrowing the income gaps between the rich and the poor-that he promised in his campaign. For the moment, Giscard has a seemingly solid majority in the Assembly and a favorable image with the voting public. But with the unions getting ever more restless and militant and with some grumbling on the back benches, the President will soon have to offer something more than a certain Kennedyesque charm and a revised national anthem if he hopes...
...Restless he rolls form whore to whore...
...four students killed at Kent State have been buried for 4½ years. But the restless search for justice for them and nine others wounded by Ohio National Guardsmen seems likely to haunt the U.S. on through history. What was apparently the last chance for a criminal court to set the matter to rest ended last week when Federal Judge Frank J. Battisti ordered an acquittal on technical grounds for eight Guardsmen defendants-even though, he added, they may not have been "justified in discharging their weapons...
...largely to excuse Lucien. He starts out emptying slop buckets in an old age home; his father is a prisoner of war and the man his mother has taken in to run the farm won't let Lucien stay home for more than a few days at a time. Restless, Lucien tries to join the Resistance, not out of any political convictions, but because he has a friend in it already and it represents an identity. But the schoolmaster who is the local commander of the maquis won't let Lucien join--"we already have too many young ones...
...debate us--but rather to beguile us with the notion that it has an existence separate from our own--then we will watch the circumstance unfold with sight unmarred by vested interests. And having wrought its image clearly in our eye, the play can then trust to our restless minds to draw the inescapable analogies to our own experience. The Caravan Theater has tapped this power with extraordinary effectiveness in the past, and they will no doubt do so in the future. But Focus On Me is an unfortunate lapse into the theater of polemical overkill. While...