Word: hecticly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FOLLOWING the most hectic fortnight of his presidency, Richard Nixon paused last week to recharge. Accompanied by Mrs. Nixon, he flew cross-country to spend a month at the new summer White House-a ten-room Spanish-style villa on a 75-foot cliff overlooking the Pacific at San Clemente, Calif...
...phases. Modern love affairs are reminiscent, according to Sebastian de Grazia, of business agreements: "No frills, no flowers, no time wasted on elaborate compliments, verses and lengthy seductions, no complications, and no scenes, please." Those who complain that girls these days are "easy" fail to understand that in a hectic age girls must accelerate to save time for both themselves and their male friends. People have not stopped making love any more than they have stopped eating. But-to extend the surprisingly adequate parallel with the joys of gastronomy-less time is devoted to both preparation and savoring...
...tradition of U.S. tourism, Nixon this week will depart on a round-the-world journey that will take him to seven countries in nine days. Everything from his airport speeches to his after-dinner toasts has been meticulously typed out in advance, of course, but the pace will be hectic. As one member of the President's entourage summed it up: "If it's Thursday, this must be India...
...intercut. A title flashes "Could anything be more erotic than a train?" Hans and the dancer have a quick assignation in the W.C. He goes to see his fiancee, who has turned into a whore. She leaves for America with a man whom Hans has recently cuckolded. In a hectic burlesque of Schnitzler's La Ronde, every character's dramatic destiny is made improbably interdependent until People ends, without resolution, in a mock-sentimental finale...
...evicted the dean from the building. The unfairness of Offner's conviction is underscored by the fact that Watson was unable to identify anyone else involved in evicting him, although he did admit that several other people pushed him. The atmosphere during the seizure was obviously confused and hectic, and it is hard to believe that Watson could have been certain about Offner's identity while being completely unable to identify any of the others involved in his ejection...