Word: restlessness
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Swinging a Pickax. Last year, with the Leeds area short of several hundred teachers, Educator Taylor hit on the sound idea that people in their 30s and 40s might like to switch careers. He aimed at restless mothers of teen-aged children, at bright older men with dull jobs who "feel quite desperate because their lives are being wasted." Britain's Ministry of Education pooh-poohed the idea, but Taylor persisted with a plan to set up a two-year college in a grimy, abandoned Leeds school building. This fall the unenthusiastic ministry finally agreed, and Taylor...
...Becoming a good teacher," said a veteran New York City public-school teacher, "has more in common with the process of becoming a good boxer or a combat soldier [than with medicine]. You do not have a subdued and cooperative patient; you have a mixed bag of restless unknown quantities in one room, no two of whom will react the same way. You get your brains knocked out a few times, and you get blown up several times. If you are a born teacher and not one fabricated by the professors of pedagogy, you become a first-class veteran, able...
...Roof. With success, Tange found himself growing restless with the international modern style he had inherited from the West, increasingly probed into Japan's deep architectural past. There he found heavy beams and posts (necessary in an earthquake-plagued country), a love of structural expression, and at the most primitive level, ancient pit houses with thatched roofs that heavily emphasize weight and volume (as opposed to the elegantly simple floating structures with shoji screens familiar to most Westerners...
...where local politicians sip coffee while carrying out the long-distance orders of others. But last week the slouching sentries were snapping as never before. Egypt's Nasser had sent up his own commander in chief, Abdel Hakim Amer, on a special mission from Cairo-to make a restless partner happier with its lot. No longer was there any pretense that Syrians were running their own show...
...Crossed. In Philadelphia, fired from his city job for a long string of absences and tardiness, J. Howard Johnson appealed to the local Civil Service Commission for his early reinstatement as law-enforcement clerk, explained that he was born under the astrological sign of Sagittarius, which makes him too restless to stay put in one spot for more than a few hours at a time...