Word: freneticism
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Only canny old James Mason and Joan Hackett, once again in a role beneath her gifts, suggest lives independent of their existence as counters on the Sondheim-Perkins board. Dyan Cannon does her standard funny, bitchy act. Herbert Ross, as he usually does, directs at an unmodulated and frenetic pace...
Administration economists claim that the Government already has done all that will be necessary to cool the boom gently, by holding down the growth of credit and federal spending. Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, is confident that the frenetic growth of the last two quarters will...
The wind-whipped waters of the North Sea usually roil in a fit of rage, the skies are oppressively gray, and the fog hangs on for weeks. Yet visitors are flocking to the sea's cold coastline as if it were the Riviera. They are coming to join the...
A shaper of the flippant, disenchanted '20s, Coward was wary of the deeper emotions, guardedly dispassionate, compulsively irreverent. He turned the era's alienated mood into a frenetic jazz beat of syncopated escapism. The message: Live for the moment, dance your troubles away, play madder music, drink stronger...
> In Palo Alto, Calif., nine-year-old Kent's teacher and the school psychologist talked his parents into administering drugs to control the boy's mischievous and belligerent behavior. The amphetamines, however, only made Kent depressed. Frequently he complained of feeling persecuted by other children and cried himself...