Word: franticness
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...folk everywhere, tend to be hostile to all big-city folk anyway, such repression of local expression for years provided the Viet Cong with a potent rallying cry. Until now, the successor governments to Diem in Saigon have done little about it. It is clear from the Communists' frantic response that they consider the local elections a major threat. They have begun a country-wide campaign to intimidate candidates and voters alike. Already they have killed two council candidates (one was gunned down last week only ten miles from Saigon) and kidnaped another, have also murdered a hamlet chief...
Karen Leslie (Helen) presented a vaudeville version of a whore. She rolled her eyes, knocked her knees, travelled from corner to corner like frantic lizard. She was too flashy to be forty. And she never indicated that in spite of their daily bickering matches, a bond exists between mother and daughter...
...only thing a bareback rider can hang onto is a leather belt, fastened around the horse's belly. It isn't enough merely to stay on for 8 sec.; each cowboy is also rated on the quality of his ride-which means spurring the horse into frantic action. But not too frantic. On a saddle bronc, says Mahan, "you will have to spur fore and aft. If you spur him in the belly, he'll toss you into the grandstand." On a bareback ride, the idea is to "keep your body back and roll your spurs...
High society is the tepid wasteland between Old Society and pop culture. Buy an apartment with a spectacular East River view of the National Biscuit Company. Furnish it with Louis XV furniture and a Monet, any Monet--and you're in. Except you are not. In their frantic battle to retain Youth and Style, the beautiful people have discovered pop culture and all its childish play things...
...teaching fellow at Harvard is a latter-day Minotaur--half student, half teacher--who is wholly ill at ease in either role. As a graduate student he sits in lectures taking frantic notes like any undergraduate. But as a section man he becomes an instructor and judge. The teaching fellow finds this ambiguous status baffling. Perhaps more than baffling--frustrating, irritating, even insulting...