Word: rabidly
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It’s easy to think you know Dave Eggers after reading his work—just ask his legion of rabid intellectual fans. But last week, about 150 Harvard students and faculty spent an hour getting closer to the post-postmodern hero than any of the countless readers of Eggers’ self-referential, hyperactive fiction, pyrotechnically clever literary journal and wittily personal 2000 meta-memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius...
...point in the Shoah scene, an old lady evokes a line from Matthew 27:25, in which a rabid Jewish mob calls for Jesus’s crucifixion, proclaiming “His blood be on us, and on our children.” This line in particular has been a major focus of the controversy, as it has traditionally been identified as evidence of collective Jewish guilt for deicide...
...Cubs have rabid fans, and people would tune in from across the country because these teams have pull. The Red Sox Nation is thriving right now, reaching far beyond the Northeast. After Game 5 at the Coliseum, the Boston players went back on the field to celebrate with the legions of Sox fans in attendance—in Oakland...
...passionate? Because they are desperate to see their respective teams win. Their “this is the year” attitude is truly a phenomenon. It’s something Yankees fans certainly don’t have, and honestly, I think it makes Red Sox fans more rabid and fervent than their New York counterparts...
...don’t think I really got those Saturday Night Live jokes about Red Sox fans and their rabid hatred for the Yankees until my first seventh inning at Fenway. The team’s playoff ambitions were already dashed, but as the game dragged on and concessionaires pulled the taps on bleacher beer, the faces around me began to harden with purpose. Native Bostonians in every corner of the stadium—from toddlers just learning to mispronounce the Boston “r” to die-hard 40-somethings escaping their wives—pulled together...