Word: restlessness
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...passive student role is not suitable for all kinds of learning, and many youths get restless. "Shielded from responsibility, they become irresponsible," says Coleman. Somehow businesses and other enterprises should be paid to take adolescents on, teach them skills and give them a broad contact with adults that they now never have. Meanwhile, their schooling would continue elsewhere-reduced to the teaching of straight intellectual skills. Says Coleman: "I would characterize this approach as a breaking apart of the school." It would also be a new approach to racial and class integration. When a child has a number of educational...
Whenever his army begins to get a little restless, Uganda's General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada announces that an invasion of his East African country is about to take place. The "guerrillas" and "spies" may emanate from neighboring Rwanda, but more often they are said to be coming from Tanzania, which in fact did allow a band of Ugandan rebels to cross the border last September in a vain effort to overthrow Amin. After that, both Tanzania and Uganda agreed to move their troops at least six miles back from their common border...
...chant, a restless fall breeze challenged her passivity. It begins to wander through her mind like the mourning dove's constant sad cry, its words escaping her memory. She is stirred to reach for them, her anxious searching fingers discovering only seeping sand. The canals in her mind; those channels of memory and meaning have failed here completely. Everything is suddenly flooding. A pounding chant, undammed. Where's home? Where's home...
...broke down under interrogation. He agreed to radio Seoul, requesting that the CIA plane return to pick up one of the agents. Downey and a fellow civilian, Richard Fecteau, went along for the ride in the C-47, even though they did not have to; they were restless and itching for some action in the field...
...West may well be that "the European idea" has finally won general acceptance, as Italy's Spinelli argues. Nonetheless, that idea is still perceived in different and often contradictory ways by Europe's eager men of commerce, its wary, jealous politicians, its skeptical workingmen and its restless, tribal minorities (see story page...