Word: delirium
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...been made for Lord Rosebery, whose country has had faith in him from the beginning. Mr. Gladstone was the only other man who could make so many Scotsmen take politics as if it were the Highland Fling. Once when Lord Rosebery was firing an Edinburgh audience to the delirium point, an old man in the hall shouted out: 'I dinna hear a word he says, but it's grand, it's grand...
...yards; who had been forced, by the unwelcome attention of pressmen, to go into a sentineled retirement before this game. On and on he raced, through pools of shadow that spotted the field, swaying past poised tacklers; and the roar of the prodigious hippodrome rose to delirium, for it seemed for a moment that he might get away, might do the thing that was half-expected of him and end his 20th game with a touchdown. But a covey of runners brushed down on him, bore him out of bounds before he had run 43 yards. The 85,000 went...
...great fanfare of the college football season is at an end. The last frantic exhortation of cheer-leaders has died away. Teams have disbanded and broken training. Players are once more men and fellow students. And as the fever passes, the delirium ends, and normal sanity returns. Now in cool and balanced judgment we can look at football and see it as it is. The spell is broken...
Half Time by Bohuslav Martinu seems to mirror in sound the delirium of a football game-bass-drum drop-kicks cannonading, harmonies lining stiffly against each other, breaking, at a signal, into isolated, screaming units. Critics, adopting this theory, compared it favorably to Honegger's Pacific 231 (TIME, Oct. 27). Said Martinu: "As the composer, I beg to state that Half Time is not a sport composition . . . it registers no football game, no whistle of umpire or protests of the crowd. . . . The problem is one of rhythm and construction . . . a reaction against impressionism...
...greater number of fatalities in cases where the onset of the disease was sudden. The onset is usually gradual. Symptoms: Headache, vertigo, eye troubles, changes in speech, a low fever, a peculiar masklike expression of the face, a lethargy which gradually develops into coma, or, rarely, into wakeful delirium...