Word: restlessness
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...Paris in 1924 after art studies in Budapest and Berlin, determined to make his fortune as a painter. Not until the age of thirty did he hold a camera. His interest in photography grew quickly, however, as he discovered that with a camera he could capture and portray the restless energy and labyrinthine density of Paris. Finally he could fix forever the flickering images he saw in the subterranean night world of cafes and bars that so fascinated him. He became a photographer, he has written "because I am a noctambulist, and the aspects of the capital at night fired...
Until 1970 David Kunst was known as a good provider for his wife Jan and three small children; he headed a county survey crew and at night worked as a projectionist at the local theater. But he was also a restless young man who loved drag racing and hated the complacency he found around him. "A few years ago something snapped," he said. "I made up my mind that I would do something that would be a little different. I was tired of Waseca, tired of my job and a lot of little people who didn't want...
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...parents' life as Long Island country squires--hunting, fishing and putting up Christmas trees. Although he soon becomes disaffected with his job, he is compensated by the life of a diplomat: a few years here, a few years there, never staying in one place long enough to grow restless or attached to the surface of things. His three sons--Scobie, Matthew, and Quentin--grow up in snatches, in Kuwait, London, Athens, Switzerland. Each time Laura looks again at them she is awed by the opaque process through which they are being transformed from children who were once extensions of herself...
Beirne was a restless, philosophical leader; he called three strikes against the Bell System in 1947, 1968 and 1971, but acknowledged that automation would dull the cutting edge of his union's major weapon. A member of the executive council of the CIO (later, AFL-CIO) since 1949, Beirne was one of the few labor leaders to support George McGovern's presidential campaign...