Word: feverishness
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...they failed. But as they rode an emotional roller coaster through the Republican National Convention, some of the coolest operators in U.S. politics clung to the heady notion that they could somehow restructure the American presidency in a mere 36 hours. Even after their feverish efforts collapsed, reducing their spirits from exhilaration to a despair tinged with bitterness, political intimates of former President Gerald Ford and Republican Presidential Candidate Ronald Reagan looked back wistfully at how close they felt they had come to working a strange sort of political miracle...
...public traffic in what used to be respected as intimate lore is conspicuous and feverish enough to have provoked some thought about the implications of the trend. Something more than a mere departure from decorum must be involved when a society begins to live habitually in a blizzard of under-the-rug sweepings. Only the simple-minded could shrug it off as nothing more than a side effect of the open and permissive social mode that emerged in the 1960s. Letting it all hang out may be refreshing and even healthy, but not under all circumstances; neither honesty nor candor...
...been there and gone there/ I've lived there and bummed there/ I've spilled there, I gave there/" Townshend sings, and there are few rock musicians who can make that kind of claim and make it stick, fewer yet who can do it with such a feverish beauty. There can be no question: Townshend is one of the true life forces of rock music. Empty Glass is a promise fulfilled and renewed, most likely in perpetuity...
...relentless daily pounding of dismal news drives deeper the public's conviction that the economy is in a profound and morose crisis. Feverish inflation, previously a rare malady limited primarily to wartime, has become chronic. Price spurts once associated with profligate banana republics are now common to North America and Western Europe and threaten the foundations of democratic societies. With every sign showing that prices in the U.S. will continue soaring even as the nation begins slumping into recession, President Carter, his re-election jeopardized by the economy more than by anything else, is stuck in an economic morass...
...sunny morning in 1918, a weak, feverish Katherine Mansfield arose in a shabby hotel on the French Riviera and, for the first time, coughed up blood. "I don't want to find this is real consumption," she wrote in her journal. "I shan't have my work written. That's what matters. How unbearable it would be to die -leave 'scraps,' 'bits' ... nothing real finished...