Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's feverish condition, Butler promised a cure without either "physical controls" (i.e., rationing) or restricting imports. It would help, he implied, if the U.S. would get cracking on its professed desire for liberalized trade. "In recent weeks, there have been a number of signs of backpedaling," he remarked carefully, a pointed reference to President Eisenhower's recent decision to allow a 50% rise in tariffs on imported bicycles. "Now should be the time surely to abandon the metaphor and speed of the velocipede and hope for a more up-to-date propulsion toward wider trade opportunities...
...Spirit of Geneva," it was a fascinating puzzle. How real was it? How hopeful? How dangerous? Would the Russians at the (foreign ministers) Geneva meeting in October make actual concessions to match some of the fair words said at Geneva in July? Did the warm - and slightly feverish - welcome to a group of visiting Russian farmers mean that the U.S. muscles ached with the strain of keeping the nation's guard up? Were certain Europeans, so lately worried about U.S. "intransigence." unjustified in shaking warning heads over the perils of what they considered a U.S. flirtation with the Kremlin...
...Opera will mount a newly designed production of The Magic Flute for its sole contribution; the Philharmonic-Symphony will offer two Mozart programs and play his music a bit more than usual the rest of the season. Closer to the composer's home territory, the activity gets more feverish. Vienna, in fact, has had to organize a central Mozart Festival Bureau, as a kind of musical traffic cop. Movie men are dreaming up a biographical film, while elsewhere, scholars are toiling at a new, complete edition of the master's music. Mightiest of Mozartean memorials is a project...
Admen's Heartburn. This week, amid the scaffolding of half-finished office buildings, in ancient music halls hastily made into studios and in smart Mayfair suites, feverish platoons of producers, directors, scriptwriters, camera crews, actors and admen are marshaling their forces for TV-day-Sept. 22. Commercial television, British-style, will not start out as a replica of the American brand. By government ruling, only six minutes of sales talk will be allowed each hour, and the plugs must be concentrated at the beginning and end of the hour, or during "natural breaks" in the program. No sponsor...
Gone the jitters which formerly hung in the rather feverish atmosphere. Gone the talk of "inevitable" war and calamity which until the other day was apt to lace nearly every conversation. Gone the talk of recessions, and depressions just around that corner. Today the mood everywhere is mild. But it is the mildness of the strong man who has little to fear...