Word: franticness
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Last week, British sources announced that Dr. Hahn and some ten other German scientists had been living on a farm 40 miles outside of London. Their answers to questioning had shown that, despite Hitler's frantic calls for a superweapon, German science had lagged three years behind the Allies in developing atomic discoveries...
...taskmasters, can teach. But his success rests equally on personality. He is the little man who is a little mad; the fellow who, leering behind painted specs or grr-r-ring like a wolf, seems ready to leap at a woman or over a wall. Meanwhile, he remains in frantic, if aimless motion. There are more explosive comics (Durante, for one) than Bobby Clark; but none in whom so much seems just about to explode...
Burned Up. In Monroe, Wis., desk policeman Herb Bolliger 1) got a frantic call for the fire department; 2) threw the fire switch-which wouldn't work; 3) raced to the fire station and yanked a bell cord-which broke; 4) whirled to rush back to the police station siren, tripped over a rope coil; 5) switched on the siren; 6) answered the phone again, heard: ". . . fire under control...
Hurry, Hurry. Mielziner's greatest headache-and heartache-is the frantic haste with which he must fill his jobs. The scene designer has perhaps three days to work out his design, perhaps three weeks to make hundreds of sketches, find dozens of props, discard, replace, assemble, "hang" and light. "I like to brood," sighs Mielziner, "and there's no time for brooding"-only 100-hour work weeks in which "one minute you're creating magic, the next minute you find yourself serving as a practical plumber or making a four-ton set disappear...
...quite conspicuous to the most casual observer on the University of Chicago campus that everyone takes his personal work and the policies of his chosen institution with the utmost seriousness. There is an air of intensity and frantic scholarship; the 'frivolity' which the University so deplores has been squelched to a remarkable degree...