Word: feverishness
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...mood of most of Kirchner's painting is a feverish foreboding, and it was natural that it should be so. In 1914, after volunteering for the artillery. Kirchner had a nervous breakdown and was found to be suffering from tuberculosis. From then on, his life became a battle against alcohol, dope, and, in his last years, the Nazis. In 1937 the Nazis removed 639 of his works from German museums; 32 were displayed in the notorious Munich exhibit of "degenerate art." Less than a year later, at the age of 58, Kirchner ended his life by shooting himself...
...second half of 1960. A droop in the U.S. economy, bringing lower interest rates, led to a heavy outflow of "hot money"-private capital that shifts from one country to another in pursuit of high interest. A few weeks ago, fading international confidence in the dollar reached a feverish climax when speculators in the London gold market bid up the price of gold to more than $40 an ounce-far above the official U.S. price of $35. Anderson felt that desperate remedies were called for, but the White House insisted on waiting until the election was over before acting...
...week long Havana rang with feverish alarms against "U.S. aggression" and "invasion." Not a day passed without stories that an anti-Castro invasion fleet had sailed from Guatemala, that D-day was coming, that advance forces had already landed in Oriente province...
...Answer. After his fitful, feverish life, Pound is not resting. He lives in his son-in-law's medieval castle in the Italian Alps, completed Canto No.111 last Christmas, and hopes to push the count to 120. Apart from romping with his grandchildren, he fires Menckenesque letters around the world, and his talk, as he once said, is still "like an explosion in an art museum." He is scarcely a hero, but as minister without portfolio of the arts he has served more gallantly than most, and he has never had any truck with "the almost-good...
...result of a feverish crusade started by a 32-year-old architectural photographer named Richard Nickel, the case of the Garrick went before Cook County Superior Court. The ruling last week could well be a historic one for Americans concerned with saving landmarks. Judge Donald S. McKinlay went back to a 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision that said in effect: the District of Columbia had the right to demolish a building if the building posed an esthetic threat. On the same principle, ruled Judge McKinlay, a city should have the right to preserve a building for esthetic reasons. The judge...