Word: franticness
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...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...
With astonishing speed in a frantic Washington weekend, an effort by President Nixon to compromise in the battle for his tapes and to preserve the authority of his office crashed toward a fateful climax, leaving his survival in the Oval Office in grave doubt and pitching the nation into one of the gravest constitutional crises in its history. There were these stunning developments in rapid sequence...
...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...
Memorable Lesson. "It" was the most frantic week in the City Opera's 30-year history. Closed down for four weeks by a surprise strike of the orchestra's musicians (TIME, Oct. 8), the company was boldly getting back in business by presenting three new opera productions in four nights. As directors, casts, musicians and technicians scurried to get ready, the backstage scene often looked like something out of the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera. Even la Sills, usually the best prepared of singers, became momentarily confused. At the full-dress rehearsal of Bolena...