Word: franticness
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...trial to a policeman from another Mississippi county. By last week an emergency round of fund raising-Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson even passed the hat on the street in front of his office-had produced only $763,374 for the Port Gibson bond. At the same time a frantic series of court appearances was producing negative answers...
Fain or no Fain, the author of that sentence is Renata Adler. Who else could hide a land mine under well-tended prose with quite as much apparent innocence? It takes a second or two to realize that intellectuals have been exempted from the frantic metamorphoses demanded by modern life. Why? The answer comes in bits and pieces: anyone who accepts (or demands) the label intellectual is automatically too dumb to deserve it. To prove the point, Adler puts her heroine through a year of teaching, "by mistake," at a Manhattan college, surrounded by "feather bedding illiterates" and "reactionary pedants...
...White House telephone operator was frantic. "Some guy on TV in Philadelphia," she said, had just told angry consumers to phone complaints directly to the President, and the switchboard was jammed. The guy was Herbert S. Denenberg, 46, lawyer, author (seven books), former college professor, hell-raising former Pennsylvania insurance commissioner (TIME, July 10, 1972), and currently one of the funniest, roughest consumer-affairs reporters ever to read fine print on a label...
...Antic, frantic, mechanical but amusing anyhow, The Ritz is of particular interest because it is the first major movie about homosexuality that does not give a thought to redeeming social value. There is not a trace of seriousness in The Ritz. In both the traditional and contemporary meanings of the word, it is a gay movie...
...week long Ford had gained stature mostly by doing nothing. His reaction to the frantic Reagan maneuvering had been low-key. Perhaps he had learned the old wisdom of Texan Sam Rayburn's curt advice: "The three most important words in the English language are 'wait a minute.'" Since his hasty pardon of Nixon, Ford has typically moved slowly, listened widely to advice and pushed steadily on, waiting for his adversaries to slip. Reagan did so last week. Ford just puffed on his pipe. He asked the S.O.S. and Chowder and Marching Club (Republican hail fellows from...