Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though Cagney settles down at the Academy as comfortably as if he were in stir, it takes some feverish scripting to get him there. A down-at-heel Broadway genius, he is hired by a producer ostensibly to stage the cadet corps' annual show, actually to lure the producer's singing nephew (Gordon MacRae) from an Army career to show business. Brass-baiting ex-G.I. Cagney rags the cadets so energetically that the corps makes him a plebe for a while to keep him on a leash-and, of course, to teach him to love West Point...
With such reflections in his head, Francis Stuart has been reconsidering the life & times of himself and his I.R.A. friends. Redemption, a feverish search for a new "breadth of understanding," is the product of that reconsideration. Though written in the overwrought, pseudo-prophetic manner of D. H. Lawrence's later novels, it is a fascinating book. Its central character, a tempest-tossed Irishman named Ezra Arrigho, has spent the war in Germany and has just returned to Ireland to settle down in a little town. What can he say of it? Scornfully, Ezra decides that most of its people...
...somewhere between an elephant's 70th and 80th years, his big, coconut-size heart becomes as worn-out as his teeth. Too tired to follow the herd any longer, he grazes alone, but finds gathering his daily ration of 600 pounds of fodder a mammoth task. Thin and feverish, he moves down to water during the dry months and stands around keeping cool...
Parisian critics agreed that Tal-Coat was indeed an artist "away from the current of his epoch." Instead of sophisticated posturings, said one, there was "an indication of meditation, of a naive drunkenness." But his feverish search for ever-increasing simplicity could also lead into a blind alley. Presumably, commented Opera, "Tal-Coat has reached the end of his evolution because unless he is prepared to exhibit blank canvases to his breathless public, what else...
...Joint Instruction might do better by presenting petitions to the proper College authorities, or merely by leaving, than by cheapening their newspaper with a deluge of trite beefs. However, it seemed to us that most of the letters were written in a spirit of levity; if not, their feverish carnestness about so trivial a matter produced the same effect...