Word: hecticly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Stravinsky composed his ballet Les Noces for a chorus, a quartet of solo singers, four grand pianos and six percussionists, and demanded that they, as well as the dancers, all be onstage. Last week at the New York State Theater, Jerome Robbins crammed them all in, contrived an angular, hectic choreography for Stravinsky's feverish music...
...well-organized nursery school, he noted, would add elements of stability and regularity to these children's otherwise hectic lives...
...first woman and the first biologist to serve on the Atomic Energy Commission, Mrs. Bunting's year off is hardly a year of rest. It's not hectic, she insists, but it is faster-moving than life at Brattle Street, and it is busy...
...school is sure of its goal-the study of the behavioral and social sciences-but in its first hectic weeks it is engagingly unsure of how to get there...
Neither political crises nor financial strains have slowed the hectic advance of Lebanon's biggest business. Although the government enacted its first banking-control code just this year, only one bank has failed-the small Banque Foncière Libanaise, which went down in February. The failure did not faze Beirut's flexible, resilient money men. Since it occurred, total deposits have continued to rise, and the freely convertible Lebanese pound is stronger than ever...