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Sometime next spring Lady Anderson hopes to have Atomica played by a professional orchestra. Meanwhile, Founder Howorth is dreaming of the day when she can stage Isotopia at the Albert Hall. "We would have room there," she explained with a hectic smile, "for all the 92 transmutations of the atom. Then we could have the explosion...
Second term field work period jobs are on the managerial level. They have proved, however, to have hectic potentialities. One girl expected that she would find less physical stress on her second job, only to find that she had been assigned supervisor of Filene's Basement...
...every page of the novel. Yet, at the same time, Ross clearly feels a futility in the brand of liberalism he professes. In this confusion of feelings, he apparently could not decide whether to satirize or eulogize his intellectual liberal hero; so he did both. The result is a hectic sort of politico-literary game of tail-the-donkey, combining some elements of post office. What rescues the book from total muddlement is his ironic conception of the intellectual liberal as "the man who lived backward...
Only a week before, the Marines had been talking about a force of 132,000 men. With the new additions, they began to have a 200,000 look. Other U.S. military plans, which had been hurriedly dumped into congressional hoppers in the first hectic days, were likewise expanding...
Serving without pay, Alumnus Ashby, a former National Broadcasting Co. vice president, started in by firing four teachers. In the next few hectic months twelve others (including Economist Tucker Smith, 1948 Socialist candidate for Vice President of the U.S.) quit in protest, and 110 out of 297 students left the campus. But after the first flurry, Olivet began to settle back to normalcy...