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Judging from interviews with many people who knew her in the U.S., where she lived from 1967 to 1982, and in Britain, where she spent the past two years, Svetlana was an often charming but restless, unhappy and quarrelsome woman. Her feverish enthusiasm for people and places could quickly turn into disappointment and recrimination, as evidenced by a trail of broken friendships and angry words. In retrospect, it seems clear that her ultimate quarrel was with her father, whom she fatefully resembled. As she once said about the Soviet people, Stalin's "shadow still stands over...
During his six-hour summation, Gould charged that TIME was engaged in a "feverish pursuit of scoops" in order to "sell magazines." He called TIME journalists "smooth-faced Boy Scouts" and said that witnesses from the magazine indulged in "self-adulation" when they praised David Halevy's reporting career. As for Halevy himself, an Israeli citizen, Gould derided his war record and called him a "Humphrey Bogart playing Ernie Pyle." He contended that Halevy fabricated the story and that his colleagues at TIME printed it against their better judgment...
Tsongas' story is at its most feverish as it describes his reactions to a reasonable Boston Herald story revealing his cancer, but headed by the screamer; "CANCER FORCES TSONGAS OUT." He writes: "The headline was crushing. The cancer story was out, and even though the story was proper, the headline would make the lasting impression. Forced out . . . How stupid. If cancer had forced me out, I would have retired three months...
...well be that all the feverish last minute issue-spinning is pointless. The race will be decided by a special group of young, white, suburban voters: the 9 percent of the electorate that is still undecided. Since national elections tend to sway the undecided voters in a local election, the feeling in North Carolina is that Hunt and Helms are hostages to the political fortunes of Mondale and Reagan. They are thus both representative of and subject to the national forces that will decide the tenor of the next four years...
...That tends to be sort of a noisy, feverish, high-pitched, somewhat of an emotional climate," says Walter M. Cabot '55, president of the company. The staff's favorite football team is the Los Angeles Raiders, and black-and-silver caps dot the heads of investors, some of whom take advantage of a nearby Nerf basketball hoop to burn off the tension...