Word: delerium
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...dock they all succumbed to that inarticulate feeling of quiet delerium which attacks champions, so all they could do was babble happily and grin like idiots in rapture...
...Beethoven's music as sounding like "the upsetting of bags of nails." Chopin's music was damned in its entirety by London's Musical World as "ranting hyperbole and excruciating cacophony." Tchaikovsky was assured by the Boston Evening Transcript that his new Fifth Symphony was "pandemonium, delerium tremens, raving, and above all, noise worse confounded." And Tchaikovsky himself was not above recording a terse opinion about Brahms: "That scoundrel . . . What a giftless bastard...
...riot of offensive football, in which young Arthur Valpey's debutante team forced the fight, struck the first blow, dazed a sound 7 1/2 point favorite, and stomped home with an opening day upset which sent its undergraduate contingent into a mass demonstration of delerium...
...play football. Buff got a laugh out of recalling the incident in his Newbury street office this week but Pitt grads still shudder when they think of all the football talent that was chased over to their intracity rivals at Duquesne University. The shudders turn into positive symptoms of delerium tremens when they recall the two tremendous upsets that Donelli-coached Duquesne pulled on the then potent Panthers...