Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arthur Miller in a feverish burst of activity finishes his new play, The Death of Suburbia. "A searching analysis of the problem of conformity in America, this dramatic work returns the theater to greatness," exults Howard Taubman of the TIMES. "Miller is the new Vance Packard...
...that revived it. On Nov. 30, the University announced that it would press charges against four of the leaders of the October demonstrations. The students felt that the administration had broken an implicit promise, and the F.S.M. had a new campaign to fight. As one student put it, "the feverish enthusiasm for the F.S.M. always seems to die out until the University makes another incredible blunder, which it always seems...
President Johnson is particularly successful when he borrows Sen. Humphrey's technique of putting questions to the audience, to which they will respond with an obvious answer. Once he has built the crowd up to a feverish pitch, he will let loose with a battery of these challenges--including obvious questions about the people's support of a number of measures that Sen. Goldwater has opposed...
...ronin wear not swords but the black caps of students. They are high school graduates who fail to survive the staggering competition for entrance to top universities-100,000 this year-and go on to study on their own or attend high-priced cramming colleges to prepare for another feverish try. Ronin who have made three or four yearly attempts are not uncommon, and the despair of constant rejection often leads to suicide, the leading cause of death among Japanese between the ages...
...churches, hospitals and universities across Spain, even an 8,611-sq.-ft. bulwark in an electrical plant in Grandas de Salime. His murals are close to "official" art, full of public consciousness, but when he won first prize at the 1963 Paris biennial, it was awarded for his feverish blend of abstraction and figuration. Vaquero Turcios fears gimmickry in the Spanish preoccupation with paint as material rather than illusion. But he himself uses a latex and plastic mixture on pressed wood, or even plaster, as in the sails of his Homage to Rodrigo de Triana, the sailor on Columbus...