Word: franticness
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World Without Visa , is one of those many-leveled books that sometimes appears to have half a dozen plots, and sometimes none at all. Dozens of sharply drawn characters move through it, their lives intertwined in frantic quests for visas, underground resistance, concentration-camp ordeals, involved political discussions and harried interludes of personal life. With a strong awareness of social gradations, Author Malaquais shows Marseille under the Vichy regime as divided into four groups: the scum, the innocents, the resisters, and the victims...
...Carnegie Hall, no one had to strain to hear what frantic Trumpeter Gillespie and his 15 boppers (including four other trumpets) had to say. Whatever else, bebop is screechingly loud. It is also breathlessly fast, with some biting dissonance and shifty rhythms, with the brass blaring out accents up on top. Pieces like Two Bass Hit and Stay On It didn't sound like "moldy fig" music (boppese for "decadent" Dixieland jazz); but, except for Dizzy's wild, fast-riding solos, they did sound like something Duke Ellington had thought better of a long time...
...Only a frantic closing sprint brought the title to the Mastodons, who had to buy back the lead from Adams and fight off a last quarter mile challenge from Winthrop. The Puritans, undefeated up to the finals yesterday, were the only combination to have beaten Eliot previously...
Said the American "cultural workers": "We want to share responsibility with you . . . Our enemies will see that our international solidarity for peace and democracy stands firm against their frantic writhing and thrashing. On this May Day we grip your hand...
Medicine's frantic search for a single diagnosis of every case, said Psychiatrist Karl Menninger, turns bacteria into demons and medicine into a demoniac science. Physicians, he said, should think of disease "in terms of the total economics of the personality...