Word: restlessness
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...vice president of Eastern Airlines. Mercury and Gemini Astronaut Gordon Cooper has set himself up as a management consultant. Wally Schirra, of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo, when not acting as Walter Cronkite's sidekick during CBS's coverage of moon shots, runs an environmental research firm. Restless as NASA's deputy associate administrator for aeronautics, Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, quit last October and became an engineering professor at the University of Cincinnati...
...course it could, and, given the title of the movie, it is. "Tonic's restless spirit needed a home," someone thoughtfully explains, whence The Possession of Joel Delaney. Why is another matter entirely...
...book has several elements that recur in The Stranger: the sun-drenched Algerian setting, a restless clerk named Mersault whose mother dies, a restaurant keeper named Celeste. This Mersault, more open and spontaneous than in The Stranger, sees himself as a Sisyphus whose particular boulder is office work-"those eight hours a day other people can stand." He pours out his frustration to a rich man named Zagreus who has no legs. Zagreus tells him, "I'd accept even worse - blind, dumb, anything, as long as I feel in my belly that dark fire that is me, me alive...
...this points to an aberration, partly the result of dizzying social change and the restless mobility of a free society, which urgently requires stabilization and saner, more civil politics. But it is not a national disease or a case of national guilt that deserves the world's condemnation. In the long run, it is more useful to try to understand America-no simple matter-than to write off the entire country as uncontrollably Violent. "Edwin Warner
...sophomore year is usually the worst of the four." Whitla said. "If students spent the year learning about another culture they would be much less restless and more manageable when they came back...