Word: freneticism
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A Sandwich on End? The U.N. buildings have roused the liveliest architectural debate in years. Some architectural critics have called the Secretariat everything from a "magnified radio console" to "a sandwich on end." Old Revolutionary Frank Lloyd Wright snorted that the design is mere "skyscraperism-a sinister emblem for world...
I don't think they noticed us when we sat down. My companion told me that Jacquet was playing "a number he waxed a while back" called Flying Home. Quick to join in the spirit of the crowd, I suggested that the music was "real gone." I must have been...
Now this doctrine, which is more fundamental to our way of life than the Capitalism or Federalism with which 'America' is commonly associated, is, in turn, founded on the belief that a society, confronted by a variety of conflicting views, will in the long run choose that one, or combination...
No sooner was the news out than Economic Stabilizer Alan Valentine, a man still new to his job (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), began a frenetic attempt to stabilize things. He fired off telegrams to G.M.'s President Charles E. Wilson and to Henry Ford II asking them to suspend all...
In the opinion of one who has been through something vaguely like this in the less frenetic surroundings of the Ivy League, sometimes referred to as the Dead Eight out here, there are a few painfully clear reasons.