Word: franticness
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...theme of the Polonaise appears in the bass (played as if a solo part by Harnoncourt himself) with an incredibly florid counterpoint in the flute part. The beauty and care taken by Harnoncourt in his accompaniment is outstanding. The usual fate of this section is to have a frantic virtuoso display by the flutist over a barely-audible figured bass...
...friend, whose secretary at that moment was in a state of hysteria in a phone booth opposite San Francisco's Juvenile Hall. The woman's four-year-old child had wandered away from nursery school and had been taken by police to the hall, where his frantic parents found him screaming in an iron-barred crib covered with fishnet. The authorities refused to release the child-until the furious Mrs. Jacobs telephoned a juvenile court judge who ordered the child set free...
...made no splash before Atlantic Monthly made some leftists frantic. And like as not, his fame will fleet, Leaving Herrnstein a secure professorial seat. Martin Fridson...
...postponement followed frantic last-minute efforts to transfer the game from Harvard to the B. U. field. The game was rescheduled to be played at B. U. at 6 p.m. last night but a misunderstanding over use of the field resulted in a further delay...
...Sins. The climax of the struggle came in mid-September. In one frantic four-day period Chou En-lai abruptly canceled most of his appointments and the entire Politburo dropped from public view, possibly because its members had been summoned to an emergency session in Peking. China's military leaders also disappeared, including Chief of Staff Huang Yung-sheng, one of his deputy chiefs of staff, the chief of the air force, the First Commissar of the navy and at least twelve senior officers in the Peking military headquarters; they have not been seen since. After a British-made...