Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even scientists have developed a touch of comet fever. They have commandeered the world's most powerful telescopes, including the high-flying Hubble, to plumb the secrets of one of the most ancient objects orbiting the sun. Says Daniel Green, an astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts: "It's the brightest one since 1976, and we're dropping everything to study...
...rally, featuring slogans such as "Legal immigrant under attack--what do we do? Stand up, fight back," though lyrically apt, did little to inform students about the nature of the controversy. But surprisingly, the rally managed to educate them in other ways. Passions ran high. A sort of synergistic fever that was greater than the sum of its parts had gripped each participant. I was personally surprised to see people, whom I know as being normally on the quiet side, start to wield their mastery of group dynamics and start chants...
...prophecy contradicts the more rational side of my mind. On the other hand, the Indian mystic wasn't a total con. This turbaned guru-of-sorts also told me that my only health problems would involve my digestive tract; three weeks later I was hospitalized for paratyphoid fever, also known as intestinal salmonella. So we'll suspend our skepticism for him, even though he tried to hawk his cure for AIDS to my physician mother so she could market it in the United States...
...intensity that makes them a breed apart from other Republican voters. Compared with the middling sort behind Dole, Forbes or Alexander, the word that best characterizes them is more. On controversial issues the Dole-Forbes-Alexander supporters are roughly similar in outlook. The Buchananites are a statistical fever spike...
Last year in these pages some fool (well, it was me) predicted that the populist fever would dissipate now that the Republicans had gained control of Congress. The theory was that a popular anger built largely on amorphous complaints would be satisfied by largely symbolic solutions. The illusion of unhappiness would be addressed by the illusion of change. The Republican leadership must have thought so too, but they and I were wrong. The genie won't go back into the bottle. Pat Buchanan, now tearing apart the Republican Party, is the genie's revenge...