Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elia Kazan put a capsule review of his screenplay in a terse scrap of dialogue. Stavros Topouzoglou, trying to explain his feverish yearning for America, tells his fiancee, "You have to be what I am to understand." To understand the movie intimately you must be Elia Kazan or one of his relatives. America, America is a gigantic home movie, constructed from family stories about migration to the Promised Land. Kazan himself was born in Turkey, and he fervently wants his film to remind us "that we are all immigrants and that we all came here looking for something." The pity...
Goldwaterites Feverish...
...think that the somewhat feverish Bogey revival now being enjoyed by the Harvard-Radcliffe sect should be placed in its more proper perspective. Bogey has been a byword at Bryn Mawr for years. Bogart Week on the Late Show has always drawn capacity crowds in the TV rooms here, and yet our appreciation is not confined to faddist imitations...
...Italian neighborhood springs to life in one vivid scene set against the background of a concrete piazza, where the men play bocce while the women pull food out of brown paper bags. Some of the film's funniest moments involve Tom Bosley as Angie's feverish, fumbling suitor. One look from her and he becomes accident-prone, breaking dishes, bumping into furniture, incurring minor fractures, yet somehow suggesting that most of the real hurt lies deep inside...
...Wall Street philosophy of caveat emptor, that every man's losses are his own misfortune, received an important qualification last week. The New York Stock Exchange decided to make good to 20,000 hapless investors the mistake of one of the members of its club. After four feverish days of consultation, Exchange officials and a group of top brokers agreed to set up a $12 million fund to pay back almost immediately the losses suffered by the customers of Ira Haupt & Co., which was suspended from trading after its biggest commodity customer went bankrupt, leaving the firm with debts...