Word: distraughtly
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...vide a touching but repetitive romantic-ballet picture of Anastasia's life prior to the October revolution. The final act is a jarring change to a heavily psycho logical modern-dance style (set to a dreary electronic introduction and Martinu's sweet and sour Fantaisies Symphoniques). A distraught Anna, apparently living in a mental ward, relives the past as she imagines or remembers it. As to whether Anna was an impostor, no one knows for sure, including, unfortunately, MacMillan...
Leaving his station, the distraught worker approaches two life-sized padded dummies seated on a platform. Picking up a bamboo stave placed conveniently near by, he ferociously attacks the dummies, slashing and swatting them until his fury is spent...
...Forever? An even graver question is the duration of any wage-and price-control policy. Businessmen, while admitting the necessity of controls, are frankly afraid that they will become permanent. "I know of no country, other than one distraught by war, that ever started down this road and then came back," says Leslie Peacock, president of San Francisco's Crocker-Citizens National Bank. Nixon has proclaimed that any Phase II control mechanism will be only a "way-station" on the road back to free markets. If inflation substantially calms down, he may campaign for re-election on a promise...
When Convict George Jackson was shot dead in the San Quentin prison yard last month (TIME, Sept. 6), his distraught mother charged that the escape attempt was actually "set up" and amounted to murder by prison authorities. Her accusation was dismissed out of hand by most, but it prompted an emotional piece by Tom Wicker, Washington-based columnist for the New York Times. "Many others," Wicker wrote, "mostly black perhaps, but not a few of them white, will not find it hard to agree with his mother...
...black teen-ager had good reason to be upset. His injured father had been rushed to the emergency room of Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, and the distraught boy was unable to learn anything about his condition. Harried doctors and nurses were too busy to concern themselves with a frightened kid. Then the boy met Mahon Washington. The avuncular black man ducked into the treatment room to learn the patient's prognosis, returned to assure the youngster that his father would live...