Word: fevered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...SPRING. The birds are chirping, the buds are bursting, a young man's fancy turns to mush. Harvard's yearly bout of spring fever is about to begin, as section attendance drops and House courtyards become littered with prematurely scantily clad bodies. Beware. The sap is rising...
This surprising scene kicks off "Yellow Fever," a play sponsored by the Asian American Association Players. AAA Players is just one of the many ethnic performing groups in Harvard's artistic community that have recently begun to claim a spotlight of their...
Even plays' titles help to provoke discussion--kiosk scanners must confront loaded and sometimes uncomfortable titles like "FOB" (Fresh Off the Boat). "Yellow Fever" and "The Trial of One Shortsighted Black Woman...
...tell you how many people have asked me if 'Yellow Fever' is about 'jungle fever' or malaria," Tye chuckles...
Jonathan Hullah is from Sioux Lookout which, he tells us, lies "nearly 2000 miles northwest of Toronto." Although this sounds to an American like code for the North Pole, the narrative stays in the township long enough to give the young Hullah a youthful bout with scarlet fever (childhood disease is a favorite repeated trope of Davies), the friendship of an Indian healer and wise woman named Mrs. Smoke (who saves him with neither scalpel nor the Merck Manual) and a lifelong interest in medicine, especially non-traditional medicine...