Word: franticness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other hand has taken the movie as a challenge; how to create the most accurate social document of this decade, right down to creating a plu-perfect student room, stocked with the right records, the right clothes (you know, the whole world wears workshirts). It is a frantic attempt to mask the fradulence of the film with the suffocating correctness of trivia...
...their age. They have much more freedom than we had, but they also have much more pressure put upon them. Unlike us, they feel the hatred of the old, and they know that they must stand together under the banner of youth. At the same time, their frantic independence often hides a group conformity more deadening than anything we could have conceived in the conforming '50s. Being young in the '70s is excruciatingly more difficult than...
...Buchwald, L.H.D., humorist. In our time of turgid seriousness, ponderous wit, and frantic promotion, you have
These days big new oil discoveries seem to be turning up everywhere-on the North Slope of Alaska, in western Siberia and off the shores of Indonesia. Even so, the search for oil remains a frantic race to keep up with fast-moving demand. Oil usage in the non-Communist world reached almost 36 million bbl. per day last year and is expected to rise by well over 2,000,000 this year...
...some ways it is far behind. The poorest region of the country, the "new, new South" is in frantic pursuit of the middle-class affluence it sees all around. At a time when America is finally beginning to question the values of modern industry and technology, the South is plunging blindly into industrialization, suffering all the exploitation that has occurred elsewhere. The brutalities of the textile mills are a good example: attracted to the South by the cheap labor and tax inducements of local governments, they have resisted unionization and have been a continually reactionary force...