Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thomas L. P. O'Donnell '47, representing the Harvard Student Council, said that he feared a small turnout when the group met for the first time Friday, November 30. Despite his warnings that "the council does not intend to subsidize anticipated deficits," the Freshmen moved forward with their somewhat feverish preparations...
...outlive her lover by 27 years-years of feverish activity in politics and writing. Just as she had captured her own generation as romantic and lover, she thrilled a new generation as radical and feminist. Author Winwar, who is something of a radical and a feminist herself, sees in this change of emphasis George Sand's splendid transition from the life of self to the life of "common humanity." Most readers may prefer the calmer summing-up of Novelist Henry James: "There is something very liberal and universal in George Sand's genius, as well as very masculine...
...plot - which of two babies, one still unborn, is to succeed to the title of Lord Popenjoy - is not so much the point of the story as the point at which feverish uncles, aunts and in-laws collect, each to fight for his or her chosen Popenjoy and, in the process, to stand self-revealed...
Pietro Mascagni had one flash of genius. He was 26, a penniless ex-conductor of a fourth-rate itinerant Italian opera company, when he heard of a prize contest for a new one-act opera. In eight feverish days and nights he wrote Cavalleria Rusticana, a fast-moving, lyric tale of love and murder in a Sicilian square at Eastertide. It won the prize, got its composer 40 curtain calls at its first performance in May 1890, and subsequently the Order of the Crown of Italy. In Manhattan, Oscar Hammerstein produced Cavalleria in English, and the Metropolitan Opera...
Soon the musicians, unable to resist their feverish rhythms, stood up and swayed while they played. "Now we're rocking," said Brick. Even the engineers in the control room began to get rhythm. The trombones growled another G, then faded out. The Sheaves were cut, and the club circulated a bottle...