Word: restlessness
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Then Irene's maid leaves. Author de Céspedes is so skilled that she can make this trite crisis the means of her restless heroine's selfdiscovery. The maid, Erminia, is a simple village girl who likes her mistress but finds her life confusing. She leaves to take a job with a woman who is a tyrant but at least leads a recognizable life: mistress of the house but subordinate to her husband, the master. Through Erminia's desertion. Irene comes to see that tedious family convention is not necessarily more depressing than her own joyless...
...Moscow, Christian Democrat Gronchi had overridden the protests of his ministers, had so vexed the Vatican that Italy's Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani had publicly denounced "men of high responsibility in the West" for their readiness "to shake the hand that slapped Christ in the face." But to restless Giovanni Gronchi, who believes in "an opening to the left," the Moscow trip seemed a prime chance to prove his mediating talents and to make Italy something more than just a junior partner in the Western alliance...
Russia wants peace to get on with its industrialization. China still needs outside hostility to unite a restless people...
...They? At a civic luncheon, he sought to discourage the nationalist's desire to secede from the federation, while assuring all concerned that he had deep sympathy for their "aspirations for self-government." As loudspeakers carried his words outside, 2,000 Africans bearing antifederation placards began to grow restless. Finally, a black policeman snatched one of the placards, and the trouble began. It quickly became a scene out of Evelyn Waugh: below, the blacks screamed and police flailed; on the hotel veranda above, Europeans calmly went on sipping their gins and whiskies...
Miriam finally left the group to join a touring musical variety show, then got the female lead in a Negro jazz opera called King Kong (based on a true story of a prizefighter who killed his mistress). In 1958 restless Singer Makeba applied for a passport, and after a year's wait she was on her way to London. From there she moved on to Manhattan's downtown Village Vanguard, then uptown to the Angel. The little girl from Prospect Township is making $750 a week, which could be eight years' rent for a native family...