Word: franticness
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...activity is most frantic at Colorado's $13 million Snowmass-at-Aspen, far and away the biggest new winter resort to be developed since Alec Gushing (TIME cover, Feb. 9, 1959) built up Squaw Valley for the 1960 Olympics. At Snowmass, Bill Janss, 49, a millionaire Los Angeles land developer and onetime U.S. Olympic Team skier, has carved out 2,000 acres of slopes with 50 miles of trails and five double-chair lifts on Mount Baldy (13,-162 ft.), which have already matched the ski area of the three nearby mountains served by the town of Aspen proper...
...authorities immediately slaughtered all of Ellis' livestock, buried them and took other preventive measures to confine the disease to one area. But the malady, which spreads with the silence and virulence of the bubonic plague of the Middle Ages, marched inexorably across the English countryside. Last week, despite frantic efforts to halt it, the worst animal epidemic in British history raged through a 17,640-sq.-mi. area from the county of Gloucester in the south to Westmorland in the north...
That prospective performance compares with a 4% growth last year, which was the worst since the Common Market's first full year. Earlier this year, EEC experts predicted a slowdown of lesser proportions. The German recession, however, proved more durable than anticipated; despite recent frantic efforts to revive business, a fifth of Germany's industrial capacity stands idle. This year, the country's gross national product is expected to drop about...
Then there was the frantic competition, the whole complex economic side of bandleading that the restless, sensitive Artie Shaw said "just plain stinks." In the end, it was this side that helped kill the bands. World War II changed the U.S. entertainment atmosphere: the draft called away many top musicians, and those who were left traveled less; the musicians' union imposed a ban on recording that lasted two years; ballrooms converted to bowling alleys...
...from the two, sending them through the first act so breezily that the disease and terror which clank from the script are reduced to melancholy, and even that faded. It is worth purchasing a copy of the play to take the measure of their achievement. Miss Russell sustains a frantic levity, as though she shortly expected her limbs to drop off. Placed against this is Miss Cox's bitter rationalism, her consciousness that everything she does is correctly reasoned from false premises...