Word: frantically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...social honeybees buzz from address to address in search of sweet status, Suburbia is at the same time the home of the talented and distinguished Americans who write the nation's books, paint its paintings, run its corporations and set the patterns.* If its legions sometimes march into frantic activity with rigorous unison, they march for such causes as better schools, churches and charities, which are the building blocks of a nation's character. If Suburbia's ardent pursuit of life at backyard barbecues, block parties and committee meetings offends pious city-bred sociologists, its self-conscious...
...Castro waxed more frantic against "Yankee imperialists," he grew ever friendlier to Russia. In Moscow, his henchman Antonio Nunez Jimenez presented a Cuban flag to the top Russian of them all, and soon Nikita Khrushchev will visit Cuba. If Castro was not yet enlisted in the Communist camp, he had become too comradely for comfort, in a place just 100 miles off Florida...
...also blames Broadway's frightened, money-grubbing drive to achieve hits at any cost. "Suddenly, the theater, born, they say, of ritual, becomes a hideous bore. All that enormous effort, all those lights, all that beauty, all the pulls to make us believe in the artifice -all suddenly frantic and mean. I went to the theater to discover another world, the true world of imagination, but I saw only my own bad world, coarsely admired . . . How rarely on the stage do you see people who think thoughts, who make political decisions, who are not asking merely to be loved...
Your Powers' cover story is a sad example of the "great drama" reduced to a piece of poor reporting under the hashing pressure of a frantic, impersonal effort to meet at any price a merciless deadline...
...Frantic politicking brought the Mizrahis back into the coalition government at the last minute and forestalled the possibility that Ben-Gurion and his Cabinet would have to resign. Foreign Minister Golda Meir persuaded Ben-Gurion not to make matters worse by engaging in a long scriptural argument on the Knesset floor with Agudat's white-bearded Rabbi Isaac Meir Levin. With several groups, including the Communists, abstaining, Biblical Scholar Ben-Gurion handily won his vote of confidence-61 to 6. But it was still a lesson in what every politician is supposed to know: that any utterance bearing...