Word: hecticly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Written during a hectic three-and-a-half weeks in the summer of 1741, Handel's oratorio has always been a smash. If a nearly endless succession of well-meaning popularizers have taken gross and extravagant liberties with it, Handel is partly to blame. A shrewd businessman, he ensured The Messiah's success by hiring the best and most popular singers in 18th century London to sing it. If the bass singer was not very good, Handel would turn the bass aria into a recitative, rewrite it for an alto or even a soprano. For flexible soprano voices...
...students, but because it demanded explanation. There is a great need on the left for rational explanation, for ways of looking at events and people that make sense. And the War did not make sense as a momentary aberration, a quirk in an otherwise benevolent foreign policy. The hectic pace of politics in the sixties and the obvious ineptitude (or was it ineptitude?) of those in power forced a radical analysis on these students...
...extreme version of carrying on the presidency (or any other executive job) is the hectic style of Lyndon Johnson. Its danger is that it can exhaust the nerves and make mistakes inevitable. But the other extreme may be equally dangerous: for a President to insist on an air of effortless efficiency, to wrap himself in an illusion of serenity. It is a species of solipsism ("L'état c'est moi") for a President to imagine that the national realities always conform to his own mood of equanimity...
WITH ONLY three or four hours of classes a day, the freshman is loaded with free time after his hectic first few weeks. While some students do study virtually all the time, others jump into fulltime jobs at the Locb Drama Center, radicalize American society with SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), or row innumerable strokes up and down the Charles for the freshman crew team. The Dean's Office views over involvement with a single activity as a great freshman problem. One sophomore, after completing a very non-academic freshman year, said last year. I got so involved with...
...mind for 30 years. In 1939 he attempted to stage it as an anti-Fascist parody. But Fellini scholars who enjoy tracing autobiographical ghosts through the master's films may find that Satyricon is a dead end. "This is my most tiring film," Fellini admitted after completing a hectic three months of editing. "It is more anguishing than La Dolce Vita because that had reality. Satyricon is made from an unknown point of view. I have invented everything myself, a universe out of my mind. There is nothing where I recognize myself. If anything, it is a kind...