Word: franticness
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Unseen Monsters. Far more important to the surrealists was Odilon Redon, who was born in Bordeaux in 1840. Probably no child lived in a world of such frantic fantasy, and almost all of his works in later life have their roots in his childhood. Shortly before he died, Redon visited the town where he grew up, and reported, "I have completely understood the origins of the sad art I have created. It is a site for a monastery, an enclosure in which one feels oneself alone-what abandon! It was necessary there to fill one's imagination with...
Anxious to forestall any lurid SEC revelations, the financial community is in the midst of a frantic bout of self-policing. Three weeks ago, the governors of New York's American Exchange secured the resignation of longtime Amex President Edward McCormick (TIME, Dec. 22). Last week, in a follow-up move, a special Amex investigating committee urged a sweeping reorganization of the exchange, which would bring its practices closer into line with those of the well-policed New York Stock Exchange. Chief changes proposed: to increase the policing power of Amex's administration, decrease the number of "self...
Seattle's excited buzz had nothing to do with the Christmas holidays: the city was in the frantic final stages of preparing for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, which will open next April for a six months' run, attracting some 7,500,000 tourists (hopefully, as many as 10 million), to the Pacific Northwest...
...that comment on Ornette Coleman seemed to have abated, we can put him in some sort of perspective. The premium he has placed on freedom has led him to produce some extremely frantic, incoherent solos, which may or may not move you. They seem to be as far from true improvising on one side as the sterile change-running of the neo-boppers is on the other, and least there's a lesson in that. But almost without exception his short, dense lines mark him as one of the great jazz composers of all time. Atlantic 1317 is generally conceded...
...Spiders Smell? Back in Brooklyn while Henry went off to Johns Hopkins (which had a rule preventing interns from marrying), Polly got a frantic call from Vermont's Bennington College. Could she start teaching genetics next Monday? Genetics was Greek to Polly, but she marched into class with the premise that "dogs have dogs, cats have cats, and you built it up from there...