Word: unquiet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fernande Olivier, a model who lived with him then and for the next 14 years, has said he was ". . . small, black, stubby, unquiet, disquieting, with sombre, deep, piercing, strange, almost fixed eyes. Awkward gestures, feminine hands, ill-dressed, ill-cared for. A thick, black, brilliant forelock divided the intelligent protuberant forehead. Half-bohemian, half-workman in his dress; his overlong hair swept the collar of a tired coat...
...into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future.' In this troubled century the burden is to be borne not by one individual or by one group but by those who live in many lands. . . In this unquiet modern world which inventions have compressed to the size of Emerson's America we have need not so much for the America scholar as for the mutual understanding of a multitude of scholars in every country who will take up into themselves all the hopes of the future...