Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shall soothe these feverish children/ Who justify these restless explorations?" wrote Whitman, who has been dead long enough to find a place in the hagiography of hip. As of now, few young poets feel the need to justify their work with critical commentary. George Amabile's response is typical: "I can't think of anything that wouldn't sound pompous or absurd." Such an attitude may not prove healthy for poetics, but it is good for poetry...
...than a nod to that feeling on the part of the author, a reflex in his own character. Piet eventually leaves his two young children without any deeply anguishing regrets. Children in Tarbox are mainly encumbrances to their parents. They are bundled up and transported, even when sick and feverish, so that the couples may continue their adulterous visits. It is the children who finally give an air of pathos to the network of affairs that makes up the novel...
ERGO is a feverish farce by Austrian Author Jakov Lind, fervently directed by Gerald Freeman...
...bestseller. After a sufficient number of nibbles, Meredith sets his H-hour, and on the big day-watches synchronized, manuscripts neatly packed in grey boxes-a platoon of messengers fans out across Manhattan to deliver their valuable cargo to the publishers. Fevered reading is then followed by even more feverish bidding...
Loose Wires. To cool the "feverish boom," Johnson once again "urgently" asked for prompt congressional approval of a temporary 10% surtax. The measure would take $10 billion out of circulation in the next fiscal year, easing pressure on interest rates and prices. At that, 1968 would hardly be austere. According to Johnson's projection, the G.N.P. would still rise more than 7%, to about $846 billion. Of the total, about 4% would reflect genuine gains, with the remaining 3% attributable to inflation. Without the tax bill's restraining influence, the Administration believes, these estimates would be thrown...