Word: feverishness
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Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, 67, was visibly tired and strained from the tensions of the confrontation with Syria last week. In the midst of feverish diplomatic efforts to head off a further escalation, he discussed the crisis with TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief David Aikman in his wood-paneled office and conveyed the impression that he was seeking a face-saving way for both countries to step back from the brink...
...wide audience for a short-story writer. Reading the bulk of her work is like taking an unblinking look through the files of a psychiatric social worker. The Dead, her contribution to Prize Stories of the Seventies, follows a neurasthenic woman writer named Ilena through a declining marriage, a feverish love affair and literary success. The first line, taken off a pillbox, sets the tone: "Useful in acute and chronic depression, where accompanied by anxiety, insomnia, agitation; psychoneurotic states manifested by tension, apprehension, fatigue." The story has the quality of an intense case study with cultural footnotes. Some are ironic...
...these diarists was James Gilchrist Swan, one of the first whites to spend a lifetime on Puget Sound. Jettisoning a young family and comfortable life in Boston, Swan followed the feverish impulse to scrap it all and go west. From 1858 until his death in 1900 he inhabited the Olympic Peninsula, beaching his canoe in Neah Bay or Port Townsend most of the time, trekking about as loiterer, notary public, drunk, author, woodcarver, schoolteacher, friend and student of Makah Indians, explorer, correspondent and collector for the Smithsonian, sketcher, hokumist, unsuccessful lover, misfit entrepreneur, and most of all, perpetual journal-scribbler...
...economy once again lurched out of control. But Washington can be a parochial town where people and power are concerned, and week after week the anticipation had been building. Résumés flowed into the drab transition headquarters. FBI agents conducted background checks. There was feverish speculation in the corridors of the bureaucracy, as well as in the daily accounts of newspapers and TV news broadcasts. But when the moment came for Ronald Reagan to announce his first eight selections for Cabinet-level jobs, it was an understated affair. The President-elect, true to his low-key posture...
...long that only two Republicans, Senator Barry Gold water, 71, and Congressman John Rhodes, 64, have ever served in a majority status. Heady with power, a few of the Republicans who arrived in Washington last week for the brief lameduck session of the outgoing Congress had truly feverish ideas. House Republicans talked about wooing 26 Democratic conservatives away from their party and thus voting Democratic Speaker Tip O'Neill out of his position. On more sober reflection, they decided that was, of course, a pipe dream...