Word: freneticism
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Cactus Flower. Humor is often the puckish shadow cast by national character. English comedy is a running display of oneupmanship, reflecting an indelible class system. The Teutonic cast-ironies of Brecht seem manufactured by Krupp. The classic American comic event is the chase, a drolly tangible version of the pursuit...
In 1962, after a frenetic year as a U.S. prosecutor in Washington, Amsterdam joined the Penn law faculty and started moonlighting as a top tactician for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund. In case after case he has astounded judges with his ability to remember hundreds of citations going back to...
Americans who militantly oppose U.S. involvement in the Vietnamese war range all the way from the hysterical Vietniks of the far left to the less strident, pacifistically inclined groups that fault the Administration for backing a repressive right-wing regime in Saigon but offer no alternative to the Communist tyranny...
"I Cried." At 50, Mrs. Sadow had put in 25 years in the frenetic field of Manhattan fashion advertising to become a copy supervisor with a two-window corner office, a comfortable $13,000 salary, and a sense of frustration. "The superficial little plays on words, the tired old turns...
COVERING Cuba without our own Man in Havana on a permanent basis poses problems. But it can be done, as we learned time and again in the 4½ years since our last resident correspondent was compelled to leave. For some months now, TIME editors have been considering a cover...