Word: franticness
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...About Cha (Billy Williams Quartet; Mercury). Over a persistently throbbing chant, frantic Billy begins his revelations quite normally, but works up to what sounds like a pathological climax...
...rolling hills and gentle valleys of Connecticut have been undergoing a steady erosion this fall from the outpourings of hordes of strong-lunges politicians who have been working their way up and down the tiny but populous state. All this frantic activity might seem a bit unwarranted in view of the state's mere eight electoral votes, but there are two contributing factors which explain the unusual amount of attention being paid to Connecticut this fall. For one thing, in the past four years the state has been almost evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, and the politicians feel that...
...each class, Miss Frances asks her pupils to get their mothers, then explains what will be needed next day (some clay, an empty milk bottle, or a paper bag with which to make a Halloween mask). After that, she signs off, while hundreds of tiny hands wave a frantic farewell at hundreds of TV screens. "My," exclaimed one little girl at the end of school last week, "I think Miss Frances just loves us children to pieces...
Carlotta, the Enigmatic Mother, was a frisky and fashionable actress living a life of frantic emptiness. And the Disagreeable Suitors were a passel of New York busybodies, creatures on the make. From this situation Novelist Sykes, an urbane critic of the U.S. urban way of life, has spun a quiet and thoughtful novel...
Another bane of the scheduling department are the professors who change rooms without telling anyone but a few privileged students. Such a one was the object of a frantic search several years ago. An Overseer of the University, hearing of this professor's excellent delivery, wanted to pay him a visit. Neither the class nor the professor were in their appointed room, and the would-be visitor was rather put out. Upon contacting the errant professor's department, Kennedy found that he had notified it of his intention to change rooms. Another visit by the Overseer to the new location...