Word: franticness
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...septet of jazz musicians who share the pit with the full orchestra. In one impressive orchestral interlude, the foreboding of violence is achieved by the integration of threatening crowd noises broadcast through loudspeakers in the rear of the auditorium, sustained, jaggedly dissonant chords from the orchestra, and frantic improvisations from the jazz combo. At the curtain, the Hamburg audience exploded in a great ovation, called Boatwright back again and again for bows...
...digging for mercury and steel-hardening molybdenum, copper and zinc. At least 125 mining-company whirlybirds are chopping the mountain air in the hunt for minerals. In the past three months alone, 130 mining companies have been formed, mostly to mine the craze for penny dreadfuls on the frantic Vancouver Stock Exchange, where, since trading opens at 6 a.m. to be on schedule with Toronto and New York, it is not uncommon to see tuxedoed partygoers stagger in for a fling of late action...
Keating's mad scene is less frantic and more funny than any of the shouting, jumping fits the other characters lapse into. Murray has him carry a birdcage around as a mocking of Diogenes' lantern. Its mere presence is a marvelous touch. Murray, in one of those decisions which saves this production, doesn't have him constantly swing it around...
...from camp, the college kids were knocking off from summer jobs for that last wild week of parties at the beach. The summer travelers were siphoning back through gigantic customs bottlenecks, and millions of women throughout the U.S. were getting set for the months ahead. But no matter how frantic or busy, each somehow found time to leaf through the fashion magazines and scan the women's pages of the daily papers in search of one thing: where is that new coat, new suit, new dress or ball gown...
Inevitably, the wreckers are wrenching a few heartstrings. Frantic efforts to save the venerable, 83-year-old opera house ended in failure last week as the Old Met Opera House Corp., whose trustees included Soprano Licia Albanese and U.S. Senator Jacob Javits, admitted "with a heavy heart" that it was unable to raise the $8 million to $12 million needed to save the building. Commented the New York Times: "It is live opera that opera lovers support, not dead houses...