Word: feverishness
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...skepticism also leaves the author unmoved. A British journalist and former editor of the New Statesman, Johnson seems to have had a bellyful of bland uncertainty. Besides, the feverish riddles of Ezekiel and the prophetic agonies of Job make better copy than the Tractatus of Spinoza. Johnson singles out the 17th century philosopher as the sort of non-Jewish Jew who sacrifices the soul of rationalism to cold logic. He quotes Soviet Writer Isaac Babel's self-mocking definition of a Jewish intellectual ("a man with spectacles on his nose and autumn in his heart") and brands Marx and Freud...
...have swamped the stock market in the '80s, dramatically reshaping the way that corporate America does business. Some 2,806 mergers and buyouts worth nearly $130 billion have occurred so far this year, up from 2,755 deals worth about $100 billion during a comparable period of 1985. The feverish activity has created a climate in which corporate raiders can reap quick, huge profits simply by buying a block of stock in a company, driving up the share price and then selling the securities back to the firm or to a higher bidder...
Much of the money came from the Bombay Stock Exchange, which is now a feverish financial center. On weekdays, hundreds of sweating, shoving and shouting traders fill an entire floor, recording transactions in soiled and curled-up note pads with leaky ball-point pens. As they jostle through the crowd in search of buyers or sellers, the action often becomes so intense that fights break out. For all that, the exchange has been one of the top performers in the world during the past two years. Prices have doubled since Rajiv Gandhi took office, and new stocks are regularly listed...
...called their journal Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring) and practiced, as a matter of principle, a manic cross-fertilization. With Klimt, art became overtly decorative, gold-inlaid portraits masquerading as rich bijoux; with Hoffmann and his Wiener Werkstatte collaborator Koloman Moser, bowls and chairs aspired to art. It was a feverish, unresolved time, and the Viennese fin-de-siecle impulse was to savor the exquisitely confused cultural moment...
Since April, crews have been working 18 hours a day on Liberty Island. The pitch seemed both unusually feverish and collaborative one bright, windy afternoon last week. There is no pushing back this Friday's deadline. Up in the statue's crown, a Mexican worker--an immigrant!--put finishing touches on new interior copper sheathing, while Project Architect John Robbins of the Park Service complimented the man on his finesse at riveting an eccentric, angular piece of metal...