Word: franticness
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...Families Are Frantic With each hint of progress in the Viet Nam negotiations, there comes a special quickening of hope for several thousand Americans, the families of 1,600 military men missing or imprisoned in Southeast Asia. For them, the maneuverings of international diplomacy-be they new proposals from the North Vietnamese or the prospect of a peace-making presidential visit to China -are translated into a single, very personal reality: the fate of a husband, son, father or brother...
...likely to be a stormy one. Mrs. James Stockdale of Branford, Conn., league founder, acknowledges "a tremendous divergence of opinions." Says Mrs. Stockdale: "There is the whole range-from immediate withdrawal to 'trust the President.' But as time goes on our frustration grows. The families are frantic...
...that the legend springs less from the frantic Fitzgeralds than from Gerald and Sara Murphy, the subjects of this immaculate essay. The first hundred pages of Tender Is the Night evoke a world nearly as lyrical as Keats' vision of embalmed darkness and sunburnt mirth, and it was a world palpably created by the Murphys. For nearly a decade, artists of all sorts enjoyed a respite from their messy lives in the company of Gerald and Sara. Picasso, Stravinsky, Hemingway, Cole Porter-all were drawn to the couple before the Fitzgeralds arrived in France...
Weber is a good character, a laconic man who is, by his lights, both skeptical and ironic. Davis plays him off chiefly against Hannibal Snow, the young prison chaplain, with whom the author is not nearly so successful. Snow is frantic in his efforts to prepare Weber's soul to meet God and increasingly tormented by spiritual doubts of his own. In the end, the condemned man is comforting the minister...
AFTER all of the frantic legal maneuvering, the hasty argumentation, the acceleration of suspense in the certainty that a historic ruling was imminent, the U.S. Supreme Court revealed its Pentagon papers decision in a decorous session that lasted only four minutes. The decision consisted of just three dry paragraphs, and was summed up in two words: "We agree." By a margin of 6 to 3, the Justices thus confirmed the judgment of several lower courts. The U.S. Government had failed to prove that it had the right to prevent the New York Times and Washington Post from publishing the secret...