Word: feverish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suburban growth has also been powerfully stimulated by the Federal Government-the FHA mortgage insurance program, which Weaver has directed for the past five years. Created in 1934, it fueled a feverish building boom that ultimately changed the U.S. from a nation of 52% renters to 62% homeown ers. Unfortunately, the housing bureaucracy has often been appallingly lacking in esthetic and environmental vision...
Died. Lucius Beebe, 63, fulltime dandy, a Boston banker's son who once wrote that "the trivia of life may be the solution for all the ills of a fretful and feverish world," remained wedded only to elegance, which he took to be his taste in dress (top hat and morning suit), food (champagne and pate), railroads (which he glorified in books and in his private Pullman), and cafe society, whose doings he reported, first for the New York Herald Tribune and later for the San Francisco Chronicle; of a heart attack; in San Mateo, Calif...
...First Hand. Schlesinger's thousand days amid the dust and sweat of public affairs have now borne fruit in A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. After Kennedy's assassination, the participant reverted to the role of historian, and in 14 months of feverish writing sought to capture on paper the events he had seen at first hand. The result is, by all odds, the best of the 90-or-so Kennedy books that have appeared in the two years since Dallas. It has won Schlesinger critical acclaim and considerable affluence as well. With...
...which only raised the Dominican Republic's already feverish temperature, and made it likely that the OAS troops would have to stay longer...
...Moment of Truth, made in Spain with an Italian-language sound track, charts the rise and fall of a great bullfighter in terms of bitter economic necessity. The hero is played by Spanish Matador Miguel Mateo, 26, known to aficionados as Miguelin, who gives the role a surly, feverish immediacy that sometimes lacks subtlety but never lacks sting. The quasi-fictional Miguelin has no dream of glory at the outset. A spunky, mop-topped Andalusian peasant, he flees the arduous life on his father's farm, drifts into that gypsy band of hot-eyed hopefuls who haunt every Spanish...