Word: restlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tennessee's ex-Governor Gordon Browning, defeated by Frank Clement in 1952, published a 2,200-word excoriation of the Clement administration, reporting: "People in vast numbers are restless to know who will challenge the present state administration, and are demanding to be told." To relieve the suspense, bull-necked Gordon Browning decided to provide the answer: "Aiming at putting an end to this tragic farce,[the people] have turned to me with proper petition to offer myself as a candidate for governor...
...mixed blessings of world leadership is the U.S. preoccupation with its many and varied allies. Around the volatile Italians, the politically neurotic French and the sensitive Spaniards, there is never a dull moment. Even those stout hearts of oak, the British, sometimes lash about and quiver like the restless bamboo...
...year's exhibitions for size and sophistication: 120 pictures by three extraordinary American expatriates-John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt and James McNeill Whistler. All three made their fame in the Victorian and Edwardian eras; after their deaths, the reputations of all three declined. Perhaps because they were restless folk, who elected to live abroad, none of the three ever quite matched the greatness of their deep-rooted contemporaries, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. But Chicago's show should do much to restore them to their proper places in the ranks of American artists...
...story describes a Civil War episode in which a small Union garrison, perched alone in the borax wastes of the Arizona Territory, must guard itself from a restless crowd of Confederate prisoners within and from a cruel horde of Mescalero Indians without. A romantic fifth column is also on hand in the shape of a Texas belle (Eleanor Parker) who makes a play for the strong man of the garrison (William Holden). Unaware that Eleanor is really conspiring with the leader of the Confederate prisoners (John Forsythe), Holden plays right along with her-until suddenly both of them discover that...
...have her committed to a mental hospital). .His children were dead or far away. His name, once a clarion call, threatened to be drowned out by the tinny trumpets of lesser men. Yet Americans had reason to remember him with respect and gratitude. For the stage, even in the restless age of movies and TV, is still a window on a nation's culture, and Eugene O'Neill opened that window wide. Before O'Neill, the U.S. had theater; after O'Neill, it had drama...