Word: feverish
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...Oriental Country of Virtuous Men) over the kind of image that Japan will present to Olympic visitors. For reasons of face, few top officials are willing to admit that the problem exists, but Seitaro Kawakami, chief of "crime prevention " in the Tokyo police, concedes: "Our work is becoming feverish be cause we simply must make Tokyo truly worthy of being the Olympic host city...
...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...
...grade. You must always act like an interested intellectual, no matter what your motive." Here speaks an authentic voice of U.S. education, in contrast to the stately bromides of college presidents. It sums up the art of conning the professor for higher grades - a sick art that grows more feverish as more collegians compete for more degrees at ever more crowded campuses. Even school children get apprenticed in the technique in how-to-study manuals that warn "Study Your Teacher" and advise: "You have to work with people all your life; start making a science...
Mainbocher is also the great loner. He disregards the feverish pitch of the Paris houses and shows his collections at his own dignified pace (his butler serves ice water instead of champagne). Last week two audiences-one of society women and one of fashion pros, both as carefully hand-picked as the members of a royal wedding-were admitted to the off-white salon on Fifth Avenue, sat reverently on couches and little blue chairs to watch six mannequins parade in 150 designs while the aging master explained them in a well-modulated whisper...
...still do not have insight, a real feeling for those feverish days. Those who lived through those times do not find the insight in this novel, even if they cheer when they hear the old arguments and issues invoked. Those critics must feel much like one does upon seeing a movie of his home town. The younger generation does not even have the memories...