Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only point is that people will become absolutely anything, so long as it runs in herds, Rhinoceros is far too long in making its point. Actually the play is much better farce than satire. The pandemonium of the first rhinoceros scares, the hurly-burly of the mounting rhinoceros fever, the sight of Actor Zero Mostel virtually turning into a rhinoceros right onstage, are all good knockabout fun. And the dialogue throws darts into a variety of human rationalizations and cliches...
...standing room crowd of 8,016 in War Memorial Auditorium saw Baylor, bedded with a fever earlier in the day, launch a furious early assault that buried the East with a steady succession of fast breaks resulting in easy baskets for the West. The West 153 points topped the previous mark of 130 set by the East...
...first time since the revolt against Rhee, Seoul's police were issued tear gas and guns with blank cartridges, and told to use them. Wading in, the cops hauled 200 ringleaders off to jail. Later, when younger students at Kangmoon High School, infected with the same fever of violence, locked their principal in his office until he signed a resignation statement, police showed the same resolution, jailed 65 young ruffians...
...political savvy and a quick sense of humor, Herbert Claiborne Pell, retired states-man and party manager, is a master at the aside--in a stage whisper. To sit next to him is the only way to catch the whole show. His asides presented a description of the political fever that is apparently catching in the Pell family...
About half of U.S. college students believe that whisky will "kill" a fever, and one-third think that an expectant mother can cultivate musical talent in her unborn child by listening to symphonies. One student in three believes that chiropractors are just as competent as physicians, and a smaller group thinks that fish is a "brain food." So says New York University's Dr. H. Frederick Kilander, author of the standard Kilander Health Knowledge Tests, who has been charting the progress of general health education in the U.S. since...