Word: feverishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Politicians and their lieutenants know better than anyone that amid the feverish intensity of an important campaign ethical lapses can occur. "Morals in Washington, DC" says Carter Administration Attorney General Griffin Bell "are different from morals in the rest of the country." Bell and other once and future Washingtonians do not defend political transgressions, particularly if they involve campaign intelligence gathering that shades into active campaign espionage. But concerning the Carter briefing-book affair, most political professionals have avoided easy pieties. TIME asked several Democratic veterans what each would have done had his camp been offered, unsolicited, an opponent...
...Among his six productions in the past year alone are a Rigoletto for the English National Opera, conceived as a Mafia saga, and a Hamlet in London rendered as Grand Guignol farce. He has also made films and TV shows, notably for BBC and PBS, including half a dozen feverish but authentic renditions of Shakespeare...
...more coke. And then more. That is why several times last year Phil stood quivering and feverish in the living room, his loaded pistol pointed toward imaginary enemies he knew were lurking in the garage. Rita, emaciated like her husband, had her own bogeymen?strangers with X-ray vision outside the draped bedroom window?and she hid from them in the closet. The couple's paranoia was fleetingly sliced away, of course, as soon as they got high: they "free-based," breathing a distilled cocaine vapor, Phil alone all night with his glass water pipe and thimble of coke, Rita...
...most impressive aspects of the Tosches biography, and one of the most memorable moments on The Sun Years, is the depth of Lewis' fundamentalist fervor. Before the tapes roll on one take of Great Balls of Fire, Lewis can be heard locked in feverish theological debate with a somewhat astonished Sam Phillips. The intensity is scary and spellbinding, and leaves no doubt about with whom Jerry Lee believes he has cast his lot. "You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have...
Bernstein himself happened to be one of the luckier of the Jewish mathematicians. Coming into the field in the 1960s, before official discrimination against Jews had reached its current feverish pitch, he was able to complete graduate studies, receiving the equivalent of a Ph.D. in 1972 from Moscow State University. The highest degree possible, the Doctor of Sciences, would have proved next-to-impossible to achieve, recalls Bernstein, but he did manage to land a job with a research group at the university, studying mathematical methods in biology...