Word: feverishness
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...fewer but at the same time bigger, more grandiose and more expensive films. As in all its hours of trial, its basic schizophrenia stands clearly revealed. It must, quite obviously, make a profit, and in the face of this fact it wavers between prenatal memories of the carnival and feverish dreams of class...
...believes that lowering the age requirement will provide an opportunity for young people to become involved in politics at a time when they are reading most about it. This could prove a force in cutting down political apathy. On the college campus feverish political activity, Rossi thinks, may interest students in politics sufficiently to bring them into national and local politics after college. This, of course, would be a highly important advantage...
...Western states last week, there was a feverish new boom in penny uranium stocks. People with a few spare dollars were taking flyers in such stocks as Uranium, Inc., Sun Uranium, Atlas Uranium. Penny Stock, and Uranium Corp. of America. The fever started in Salt Lake City, spread to Denver, and to the San Francisco Mining Exchange. There, said President George Flach, the uranium boom has brought "the brightest prospects I've seen around here in ten or 15 years...
...lifted himself slowly out of his own filth, he has reduced the likelihood that a child will be exposed to a virus that is mostly flushed down the drain. And the later the age of exposure, the greater is the danger that the infection will develop into a grave, feverish and perhaps paralytic illness. The reason why most of the populace seems to be immune, says Dr. Paul, is simply: "We have had it." But without knowing it. As U.S. standards of hygiene have gone up, so has the age range in which paralytic polio strikes. Nowadays. 22% of victims...
...lack of harmony. Their precision is achieved mainly through the skillful direction of Theodore Field. He seldom allows the seven to speak as a whole, preferring instead to let individual lines go to single persons or small groups. But the chorus always seems to speak at a feverish intensity; greater contrast would lend much to the dramatic effect. The three priests, on the contrary, speak with a careful modulation that shows thorough understanding of their roles...