Word: hectically
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...York City Opera's American premiere of Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen. In addition, he has been making appearances in bookstores to sign copies of a coffee-table retrospective, The Art of Maurice Sendak, by Selma G. Lanes. In the midst of this hectic schedule he paused for breath in his bachelor retreat in rural Connecticut and reminisced with New York Bureau Chief Peter Stoler...
...impetus from the war protest--serve as his preoccupying theme during the early '70s. This group of essays will surely disappoint most people who know Walzer as the serious and methodical Harvard political philosopher. His opinions included as much interpretation of American culture as of politics, reflecting the hectic transition of American society. Although often insightful and emotive, their desultory vagueness smacks of Harper's and Atlantic standard monthly pablum...
...pace has been as hectic on the Reagan side, where Correspondent Laurence Barrett says he has seen America as he had not for years: "Mostly it looks like the inside of a plane or a Holiday Inn room." Barrett covered 80,000 miles and 23 states before he stopped counting three months ago. He has seen two of his portable computer terminals, for filing stories back to New York, go up in smoke. But Barrett remains stoic. Says he: "Come Nov. 4,1 have a fifty-fifty chance of knowing the President-elect better than most people know their next...
Still, some friends portrayed young Meeker's early years as hectic and troubled. The only child of Moore and Meeker, he was six when his parents were divorced in 1962 after seven years of marriage. He lived first with his mother, then moved in with his father at age 15. He attended a string of schools, started high school late and dabbled briefly in drugs. But friends said that in the past few years he seemed to be on track. Said Janet McLaughlin, 22, another housemate of Meeker's: "Richard wasn't emotionally troubled...
Little towns do, of course, offer their own special allure. A small community of any one of the wide variety provides a setting for life that is profoundly distinct from the hectic atmosphere of the metropolis. The sense of warm, intimate community may not be universal...