Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Precisely at this point, the book ends; and with the book, Radiguet's life ended too. He received the proofs as he lay dying of typhoid fever. "Listen," he said. Listen to something terrible. In three days I am going to be shot by the soldiers God. . . I heard the order." Three days later, Raymond Radiguet died. He was 20. Age is nothing," he had written. "All great poets have written at seventeen. The greatest are those who succeed in making one forget it." Radiguet can make a reader forget everything but the cool grace...
...Philip boasts of the quantity of "Q fever" germs that one of his favorite ticks often contains. The juice of this tick can be diluted 500 billion times and still carry the disease...
...most part, archaeologists are scholars who work among ruins and study in musty museums, surrounded by books and bones. But in the Southwest, almost everybody is an archaeologist: Girl Scouts, G.I.s, Indians and postmen all have the digging fever. Cowhands hunting for straying cattle hunt for dinosaur bones. Gatherers of pine nuts look in the debris of anthills for the tiny turquoise beads of vanished early Americans...
Each year the digging fever grows. Archaeologist Emil Haury of the University of Arizona gets a stream of valuable finds from construction men, Indians and soldiers on maneuvers. Recently he was asked to speak before a meeting of the Arizona Cattle Growers' Association to tell them what their cowhands should look for while out on the range. Besides giving advice, the archaeologists make a plea: don't mess up a promising site. Tell the professionals. They'll help you and give you credit...
Hollywood's three-dimension fever was still running high last week. But amidst all the 3-D gags ("We'll have to hire opticians instead of lawyers"), epithets ("third dementia"), and a rash of planned 3-D productions (15 feature movies in 1953), a few industry veterans began wondering aloud whether sudden salvation is really at hand. Is 3-D certain to save the sagging box office? Notable reservations and misgivings about 3-D's future...