Word: hecticly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moderns. At his first rehearsal after Furtwangler's death, Von Karajan told the orchestra: "We will make music as you have always made music." He soon began to demonstrate his own good faith by increasing his tours and recording commitments with the orchestra despite the most hectic musical schedule maintained by any major conductor: Von Karajan is artistic director of the Vienna State Opera and a conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic, directs major opera recordings for London's Philharmonic Orchestra, appears regularly at Milan's La Scala and at Salzburg...
Hiroshima, Mon Amour is a meeting of East and West, a document protesting war, and a carefully compassionate psychological study. Confusing, and sometimes hectic, it is also immensely impressive and moving. The New Wave film art, which it represents, expresses emotion in quick shots, jerky transitions, and skillful composition, which intensify individual scenes at the expense of untiy...
...fall. During the weeks when his back ailment had limited his physical activity, he had gained 10 Ibs., and his face appeared puffy; now he was down to 175 Ibs. and, although there were a few new lines, the puffiness was gone. His physical resiliency was remarkable: late one hectic day last week, a visitor reported that President Kennedy seemed weary indeed-but the next morning, other visitors said they had rarely seen him so full of bounce...
...changing the world by a "God-guided" elite-a program that has little endorsement these days from the clergy. Reinhold Niebuhr has called the movement "socially vicious" and "religiously vapid," and six years ago the Church of England's Social and Industrial Council condemned M.R.A.'s "hectic heartiness, its mass gaiety, and its reiterated slogans as a colossal drive of escapism from . . . responsible living." The movement has been repeatedly attacked by Roman Catholic leaders as a kind of fake religion...
...Charles D. May (New York University; a member of the A.M.A.'s Council on Drugs): "Hectic promotion of unwarranted products subjects patients to illogical and excessive use of drugs. Individual doctors cannot evaluate each drug's usefulness. If they could, they would not have gone on prescribing leeches for so many years...