Word: franticness
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...scene was the same as in the past--any veteran hanger-on could tell you that; there were the frantic cries of the loudspeaker trying to coerce people into beach trips, the annual sightseeing tours, the bad tennis, the sons and daughters frolicking about, and all the little extras (straw hats with red ribbons) that go with a Harvard Reunion...
...idea of man in motion grips the two most talked-about literary movements of the late '50s. Britain's Angry Young Men fret about social mobility, the harsh grind of shifting class gears. The "go, go, go" men of the U.S. Beat Generation are caught in a frantic physical reverie of "a fast car, a coast to reach, and a woman at the end of the road." The question ultimately juts up: Are these self-appointed spokesmen for the 20th century young moving in a quest for meaning, or a flight from...
...turn of the century, eight dailies were crammed together on the narrow, twisting section of Washington Street in downtown Boston called "Newspaper Row." Eight was too many. There, elbowing each other for space and circulation, the Boston papers developed their traditional pattern of frantic promotions, flashy makeup and lackadaisical reporting...
...Abby got some 25 letters from frantic women, each confessing that she was the writer of the mash notes. They came from Houston, Detroit, Boston, Los Angeles, even Honolulu. The original letter was written by a woman who lived in the San Francisco area...
...youth'' was consciously breaking social taboos even when it did no more than kiss and pet. Novelist Gutwillig's off-beat generation takes its sinning much more casually, but jabs itself with sensations for the sake of sensations. The author's implied excuse for their frantic frivolities is apocalyptic-apres nons the fallout. But back of it all is the eternal romantic urge of the young to live in and for the moment. The unwitting pathos of Author Gutwillig's characters is that the only way they can make time stand still is to kill...