Word: franticness
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...frantic aftermath of the assassination, Texas, Dallas and federal authorities rushed to assemble and sift through every detail surrounding the event. But all those overlapping efforts will become secondary. Last week President Johnson named a high-level commission to handle the official investigation. Members: Chief Justice Earl Warren (chairman), Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard B. Russell, Kentucky's Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper, Louisiana's Democratic Congressman Hale Boggs, Michigan's Republican Congressman Gerald Ford, ex-CIA Chief Allen W. Dulles, and onetime Presidential Disarmament Adviser John J. McCloy. The President's instructions...
Burgess leads the reader skillfully through the cycle. His antihero, a nonentity named Foxe, halfheartedly shovels history at fifth formers in the first phase. During Interphase, he is a political prisoner and then a refugee, frantic to eat and not be eaten (cannibalism is part of the chaotic interregnum). In the third phase, Foxe enlists in an army whose sole function, it turns out, is to relieve the population pressure by annihilating another army-and itself...
...Hunt. At the assassination scene, meanwhile, that first moment of stillness gave way to frantic, confused movement. At the sound of the gunfire, bystanders grabbed children and fell over them to blanket them. Newsmen aboard the press bus far back in the procession yelled for the driver to stop, while others told him to keep moving. The bus jolted ahead, past horrified faces, frantically running figures, huddling women. A cop dropped to the ground and drew his revolver. A man fell on a grassy knoll, beating the earth with both fists in mindless fury. A heavy-set policeman began running...
...argument should be clear by now. The Deans should be answered through letters couched in terms of warmth, joy, humor, perspective, and love. Rather than discussing sex at Harvard, we should discuss why Harvard is often joyless, pompous, cold, and frantic. The real scandal occurs not when a Harvard man seduces a 'Cliffie, but when he is ashamed to say "I love you" because it is not cool, and when he is afraid to express warmth because it is naive...
...moon race diverts far too many physicists, engineers, and other scientists from more practical and more scientifically valuable projects to the frantic effort to make sure that the man on the moon will be American. And the moon race consumes over $20 billion, money which could be taking many more worthwhile projects off the shelf. Vastly more knowledge would be reaped from money put into solar probes or orbiting geophysical laboratories than will be gained from a manned moon shot...