Word: hecticly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party at the headquarters of the Artists and Writers Union. At last, amid shouts of "kan pei!" ("bottoms up" in Chinese), Chou finally sat down to a sumptuous banquet. Communist Ruler Enver Hoxha described it as "a family dinner, just as if you were at home." After such a hectic night of pub crawling, Chou probably wished that he were...
...with some daringly "modern" furniture just imported from France. Fuller's 4D (for Fourth Dimension) title for the house seemed drab to the promotion-minded store executives; they assigned a couple of high-powered word-sculptors to work out a new word for it. After two days of hectic brainstorming, the result was "dymaxion"-vaguely compounded of "dynamic," "maximum" and "ion." Marshall Field copyrighted it in Fuller's name, and in the years to come Bucky turned it into what amounted to a personal trademark. Today he explains that it means the "maximum gain of advantage from...
...Billy, Tom Courtenay (The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner] seems the apotheosis of misspent youth. Director John Schlesinger often takes fancy too literally, weighing it down with sets and costumes, and Courtenay's hectic inner life is hilarious all by itself. The movie soars when he tosses an imaginary hand grenade as the ultimate solution of some minor social disgrace. When he lolls around his boss's office practicing a speech of resignation, Courtenay steers an unpredictable course from Churchill imita tions to doubletalk to mere gibberish, and brings off moments of pluperfect screen comedy...
Outside foreign offices, Dean Rusk is largely an unknown quantity himself. He has met nearly every Foreign Minister on earth. After the U.N. convened in September, he chatted privately with some 70 of them in a hectic nine-day stretch, kept so tight a schedule that one U.S. official compared his outer office to "a dentist's waiting room." Despite his distaste for "personal" diplomacy, he has logged nearly 100,000 miles a year in trips abroad...
Endless honors have already testified to the scientific achievement of those hectic days, and modest Dr. Wigner has received a valuable share-the Enrico Fermi Award ($50,000), half of the Atoms for Peace award ($75,000). Last week he got his highest accolade: half of the Nobel Prize in physics...