Word: hecticly
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...hectic squeeze play capped a threerun rally in the varsity's fifth, but B.C. again fought fine with fire by taking the lead for the only time in the game...
...cards inviting opinions from booksellers, reviewers, radio-and newsmen on present-day living conditions. Some of the replies dealt with life in general, but many of the answering bookstore owners and employees took the question personally, volubly commented on their own lives. The answers, mostly gloomy, with interludes of hectic gaiety, seemed to suggest that a great many booksellers are on the verge of a crackup. Samples...
...House of Assembly hastily voted its hearty displeasure, profound indignation, and poignant regret over the editorial. The News, visibly stiffening its upper lip. explained at length that no offense was intended and that the writer had merely been trying in philosophical vein to interpret the "signs of our hectic times.'' But Toddings admitted ruefully that in 40 years "I have never known a newspaper to be on a more defenseless wicket.'' He added sternly that the News editor who passed the piece had been "brought to book." The editor, a bewildered Texan named Elizabeth Pengelly, explained...
...light-intoxicated as the air of her native Greece, 3ut her vision of life has a dark, existential Dathos. The book's title is inspired by an image from the radio studio-ten seconds to air time-and it implies that all of life s an absurd, hectic, fragmentary rehearsal :or living that paradoxically ends just at the moment that a man thinks himself ready to begin...
Callas' own performance had the familiar virtues and faults: warmth and purity in the lower and middle registers, edginess and wobble in the upper ones. But she infused the character of Violetta with ardency, hectic gaiety and a dampened passion that flickered through the role like a wayward fever. Her deathbed agonies had the quiet poignancy and the ring of truth that so often evade lesser artists. All in all, Callas gave the Met its most exciting Traviata in years, and demonstrated again that she has lost none of the turbulent appeal that can magnetize an audience...