Word: franticness
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...Kennedy is nothing daunted by his lack of experience. When not on his courthouse job, he spends his time on a frantic schedule of "nonpolitical" campaigning. On a recent Sunday, he drove from Hyannisport to Natick to deliver a breakfast speech at a men's group at Temple Israel. After 11:30 Mass, he hurried to a Framingham neighborhood coffee meeting, followed it up with a luncheon speech in Framingham, an appearance at a "silver get-acquainted tea" given by Medford St. James Church Women's Guild, a talk to a parents' group at the Wrenthem State...
Here then is an example of the ideological rift in the School Committee campaign: on the one hand entrenched progress, on the other a frantic search for minor issues...
Tracked down in Venice by frantic transatlantic phone calls, holidaying Soprano Anna Moffo, 26, jetted home posthaste to take over from ailing Australian Joan Sutherland in the San Francisco Opera's opening-night performance of Lucia di Lammermoor. Delighted by her rapid rise in what she describes as "dog eat dog" divasville, the handsome, Pennsylvania-born singer was less than delighted with the fast flight, exhaustedly proclaimed: "I'm violently against the jet-and-taxi age; the prima donna of 50 years ago had it much better with the slow boat and the horse and buggy...
...Hurry, darling, hurry!'' a woman gasps. "My husband is coming!" Jauntily the young man leaps to the roof, shoots his cuffs, leaps to the next roof, thumbs his nose at the raging cuckold, dances off into the dawn. The young man is Jean-Pierre Cassel, whose frantic antics in The Love Game (TIME. Nov. 28) made him overnight the Danny Kaye of the French New Wave, and instead of popping out of that skylight he should of stood in bed. The Love Game was a delightfully risky, frisky, upstairs -downstairs -and -in -my-lady's-chamber sort...
Lone evidence in the lobby of the building of its frantic occupants is a sign that says "Peace Corps Personnel, Room 500." Aside from the incredible number of loose papers that occupy just about every bit of spare room, one notices several things that symbolize the Peace Corps project...