Word: restlessness
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...Wolf, 56, is the chief exponent of "dirty downhome" country blues. "The Wolf" rarely stirs his hulking, 6-ft. 3-in., 250-lb. frame from a rickety wooden chair in front of his band; but standing or sitting, he movingly shouts the dilemma of the country man who is restless in the urban maze...
...have no place on the political stump or on TV anymore. Instead Reagan, who probably has better connections with more kooks than any man in the nation, is gearing his campaign to those who have become disenchanted with Governor Brown in the past eight years -- mostly restless Democrats and independents -- and letting the hard core G.O.P. vote take care of itself. He is banking on rhetoric proposing a "creative" rather than a "great" society to appeal to a general undercurrent of malaise he dimly perceives in the California electorate. He also knows that people are tired of Pat Brown...
Born in Southampton, Ont., of a Scottish father and a mother of English descent, Thomson was a bright but restless student. He left Canada at 18 without finishing high school, headed south of the Canadian border, turned up at the home of an uncle in the Queens borough of New York City. Interested in figures and bookkeeping, he went to Wall Street for a job, was hired by Merrill as a runner at $14 a week. "I remember the salary well," says Thomson, whose present annual income is over $100,000. "I couldn't live...
Marge Farber, once divorced, had an eye-catching schoolgirl figure. Her husband tended to interest himself in puttering around his lawn and rhododendrons; Marge, who seemed restless, took lessons in riding, golf, interior decorating. The Coppolinos and the Farbers naturally got to know each other. Recalls Marge: "We just met like neighbors do in a town, on the street. Carm and I were really good friends." So were Marge and Carl...
...Young World tries to speak about the restless spirit of modern youth in timely catchwords. A fille de frug wearing topless finery is whisked aloft at a wild students' ball in Paris. Sean Connery appears briefly, creating instant Bondomania. The troubles in Viet Nam and Santo Domingo are touched upon. Finally, Hero Nino Castelnuovo, as a young Italian making the Paris scene, comes right out with it: "Don't you feel a new world is in the making...