Word: restlessness
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...mistakes have been made in the past. And successes." No recreation, however, can really compete for his attention against the activity he loves best: running G.M. For despite his quiet, intellectual exterior, Donner delights in the unpredictability and endlessly changing nature of his business. "We're a very restless crowd in the auto industry," he says proudly. "We're always under strain. This business wouldn't be any fun if we weren't under strain. It would be like selling soap or matches...
...flying dancers, the audience rose and gave the performers the old Sol Hurok Opening Night Locomotive. The dancers applauded back with enthusiasm. The reviews glowed. Box offices along the company's 16-city cross-continent route rang to the clink of coin. As for Impresario Hurok himself, his restless eye was probably already roving the map of Russia that was included in the official program. A ballet troupe from Monchegorsk, perhaps? Or sword dancers from Pinsk...
When Charlie grows restless, the family travels, usually to Venice, Paris or London, or to the Irish coast, where they have bought a house. Charlie likes to walk the slum streets of London, where he grew up as an orphan. When they travel, the family flies in two or three planes so that no crash could claim all of them...
Million-Dollar Index. Great Books is the fruit of an inspired collaboration between an intellectual with a taste for "business romance" and a hard-driving salesman with a rare knack for marketing culture. The intellectual is restless Mortimer J. Adler, 59, a martini-sipping scholastic iconoclast who first imposed himself on the national consciousness as a University of Chicago philosophy of law professor and a protégé of former Chicago Chancellor Robert Hutchins (who still holds the title of editor of the Great Books). In 1943 Adler scraped up a $60,000 grant to begin work...
False Prosperity. Underlying all politics in Argentina is the memory of Juan Per&243;n and of the restless underclasses who followed him faithfully for ten years. Until his overthrow in 1955, Per&243;n masked his dictatorial misrule by spreading Argentina's wealth before the public...