Word: franticness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...process by which Al Chatham came to Cambridge involved representatives of 125 citizen groups plus representatives of teachers, administrators and students serving on interviewing panels to quiz five final applicants for the job. Unlike the frantic petition drive for signatures to support incumbent Frank J. Frisoli, which was mislabeled "citizen participation," this process gave Cambridge citizens a choice...
Striding with a fixed smile into a solemn gathering of newsmen, Nixon confronted television cameras and declared that he had been the victim of reporting that he assailed variously as "outrageous, vicious, distorted, frantic and hysterical" (see Hugh Sidey on the press conference, page 23). Perspiring and barely containing his anger at times, Nixon insisted that "the tougher it gets, the cooler I get." The recent scandal-inspired shocks that have so jolted the nation "will not affect me and my doing my job," he said. He had been through so much controversy ("it has been my lot") that "when...
...each man's life, but the vignettes connect only superfluous details to the body of the film. This is a film about a decision to die, about a decision by four well-to-do-men that bizarre death on the weekend is somehow worth more than a less frantic hedonism continued over a protracted period. The decision to die cannot be divorced from the work and family lives of these men. Living is not such an easy habit to break, even for a good meal...
...resistance set off a frantic last-minute effort to find Ervin and Baker and summon them to the White House. Baker was located at a symposium in Chicago, Ervin at an airport in New Orleans. Both flew immediately to Washington. They were ushered into the Oval Office and urged by Nixon, Haig and Wright to accept the proposal...
Parents who only yesterday were worried about their kids' boredom and indifference are now frantic about their commitment. Alan Weisberg, 21, president of the Jewish Student Union at Brooklyn College, was urged by his parents to stay home. What about school, law boards, the danger? Replied Weisberg: "How can you equate a job or profession with the survival of the Jewish people and Israel?" Discussion ended. Stuart Rosenberg dropped out of Indiana's Earlham College to return to the country where he spent a year studying. "My going over," he said, "doesn't really matter a drop...