Word: franticness
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...gangly-in a Waldorf-Astoria suite, looking as out of place as a cheerleader at a debutante ball. Her shaggy haircut springs out from her head. Her nails are bitten to the quick, her black boot heels are run over. She sprays words and sounds. She is having a frantic kind of fun, like a kid rolling down a hill, dizzy and excited at the same time. But who cares? Certainly not Liza Minnelli...
Cape Kennedy has suffered the most from the slowdown in the space program. Employment has dropped from 24,000 a year ago to 17,500 today, and "pink-slip psychology" lends a frantic tone to Friday night parties at the local Hilton. Houses that sold for $25,000 a year ago now bring $1,500 less. Space contractors organized an employment service and invited more than 100 organizations-life insurance companies, boat builders, even the CIA-to interview laid-off employees. They found 600 jobs for 2,000 men. One $15,000-a-year engineer wound up packing groceries...
...litany runs through poisoned air and water to clotted highways, nerve-jangling noise, reeking dumps and an ugly bulldozed countryside. Improved technology and advancing production have made life increasingly complex, frantic and wearing. Complaints are rolling in -not only from youthful rebels but also from the supposedly silent majority Middle Americans, to say nothing of scientists and politicians. Urbanologists fret about cities swollen to dinosaur dimensions that defy efficient management and create immense social costs through crime, congestion and drug addiction. Ecologists raise the specter 'in a planet made uninhabitable by the pressures of a rising population. Some environmentalists...
...counterpunch lines. "You are considered an underdeveloped nation by underdeveloped nations," the Local Prince is told by the Columnist. "Disneyland-that's our code name for Washington," explains the Ambassador. Political in-joking is the sport of the evening, but some of it has a kind of frantic blandness about it: "Do you realize that the average age of Chiang Kai-shek's privates...
...inevitability lights a fire beneath the "search" that all of us, in one form or another, have undertaken. We want something to show for our 75. or whatever, years when they are behind us. The Supermarket Racer option has shown its bankruptcy in the pathetic forms of frantic, dawn-to-dusk errand-running P.T.A. mothers and ulcer-ridden financier uncles. The search has brought some of us to Harvard and is beginning to turn many of us away from it. It has fostered acidheads, Weathermen, Krishna- consciousness chanters, junkies...