Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novelty on the program was Falla's ballet music El Amor Brujo, the best known section of which is the Ritual Dance of Fire. Based on Spanish folk spirit, Falla's music is exotic, feverish, and sometimes haunting. Soloist Malama Providakes sang with an idiomatic flavor reminiscent of the great contralto Conchita Supervia, with a dark, full-blooded tone. There were several lovely Oboe solos from Cynthia Deery, while the Orchestra as a whole played with both fire and precision...
Someone Possessed. Maria Callas was still fat and half sick. She was inclined to break out in rashes and blotches; she was often feverish; her legs became painfully swollen. She took her resentments out on the people around her. Her first victim was another soprano, Renata Tebaldi, long-standing favorite of Scala audiences, possessor of a voice of creamy softness, musicianship of delicate sensibility, and a temperament to match. She was no match for Callas. From the beginning the two women glowered. Tebaldi stayed away from Callas' performances; Callas, on the warpath, sat in a prominent box at Tebaldi...
Question Marks & Symbols. Warmed by the hopeful signs, the Democrats began to work at electoral-vote arithmetic with feverish enthusiasm. Starting with the last election returns-which gave Ike 442 electoral votes to Stevenson's 89-the Democrats looked hopefully at states where Ike's margin lay within 6% (see map), figured expansively that a shift in all these was possible and would harvest 343 electoral votes-a margin for error of 77 over the needed 266. If this method conjured up doubts, there was another kind of arithmetic, based on the electoral votes of all the states...
Despite Panama's pique, there is no detectable sentiment, even among feverish nationalists, for attempting to take the canal over, Nasser-style. The Panama Canal handles less traffic than Suez (40.6 million tons in 1955 to 115.7 million), but it is even more complex to run because ships have to be raised and lowered by locks. And Panamanians are leary of bolstering arguments, commonplace in naval circles, that the U.S. ought to punch a new, broad, sea-level canal elsewhere through the narrow waist of the Americas...
Besides the front runners, one or another of the research doctors has a good word for nearly all the newer drugs developed in the feverish search for still-more-effective agents...