Word: restlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Irish Novelist Francis Stuart spent World War II in Germany by choice. Restless and bored with Ireland, at 37, he had accepted a job teaching English literature at the University of Berlin, and stuck it out. Stuart was not the only rebellious Irishman in town. Among his good friends were the Republican army leaders who felt sure they were riding the wave of the future. Gradually the wave ebbed and the certainty faded. Says a leaner, greyer Novelist Stuart, who now lives in Paris by choice: "Who could have suspected in 1939 that things would turn out the way they...
...military prisons for a varied list of offenses, e.g., "Dunlop, five years for sabotage; Dykes, four years for breaking a picture of Hitler over the head of a guard; Thomson, five years for making an unprintable remark about Hitler . . ." Black Watchers were not only disrespectful prisoners, they were restless ones. Every captured officer of the regiment made at least one effort to escape...
Like many another hardheaded businessman, Abell H. Bernstein was hard driven by his own restless energy. The stocky president of Bernstein Bros. Pipe & Machinery Co. of Pueblo, Colo, thought nothing of working 18 or 20 hours a day, seemed never to tire. But then he began to suffer from dizzy spells and shortness of breath. Specialists told him that he had coronary artery disease, advised him to quit work and take things easy...
Hilda Crane (by Samson Raphaelson; produced by Arthur Schwartz) is purely synthetic stuff, but it is chock-full of what a lot of people mean when they speak of a play. It dramatizes the problem of a woman-a woman twice married and divorced, passionate by nature, restless in spirit, divided in mind. In a chastened mood, she marries an admiring dullard she doesn't love, embraces a provincial and domestic existence that cannot last. The play possesses a full pack of such characters as the tough-minded mother (Beulah Bondi) and the son-worshiping mother-in-law (Evelyn...
...still restless and is constantly on the move-usually behind the wheel of one of his two Cadillac convertibles-around a self-designed orbit...