Word: feverishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play of words and rhythms is precisely one of the ways Cesaire infuses French with the elements of negritude. In "Batouque," the title word is like the clap of hands, regularly punctuating the phrases as clapping in a chant. The words tumble forth and build to a feverish pitch that is drilled into the mind by the incessant chorus batouque...
What was once feverish giving to the $350 million Harvard Campaign has slowed markedly in the last six months, and that fundraising problem helps explain why the Faculty will be at least a month late in announcing next year's tuition...
...obligation, in short, is to value students enough to value everything we do for them. I include here not only sincere listening but also writing recommendations and explaining how the introductory sentences of their first papers can be made interesting. It means stopping yourself in a feverish class discussion even though you know you could make the best contribution of all. What advances us into this degree of selflessness? We come to it gradually, by accepting the duties that come with appropriating the right models. "Being a teacher means assuming responsibility for someone's life, at a certain level," said...
Officially, it was described as "a bad cold." But feverish imaginations in the world press soon produced far more colorful explanations for Soviet President Yuri Andropov's total disappearance from public life last August: he had been shot by Leonid Brezhnev's son, he was suffering from Parkinson's disease, he had had a stroke, he was recovering?or not recovering?from kidney transplant surgery. What actually happened to Andropov is much less melodramatic and far more logical. Here are the details of his recent medical history, as assembled by TIME from authorities in the U.S. and abroad...
...Pete's claim that he wrote The Gift of the Magi in a booth there. A plaque at Sal Anthony's, a restaurant on the site of O. Henry's home, half a block from Pete's, insists that he composed the story in "two feverish hours" sitting in his wide front window-writing of the wife who sells her beautiful hair at Christmastime in order to buy a watch fob for her husband, who sells his watch in order to buy her a pair of combs...