The spirit of the American parade ground and, by extension, patriotic fever infuses this ballet as clearly as the sound of a bugle call.

Big business had at first succumbed to the patriotic fever, but had soon remembered that war is folly and ruinous to trade.

Like many Lebanese, Mr. Mansour says he is happy about the welling of patriotic fever.

Everyone seemed to be infected with patriotic fever.

Under the state's first Constitution, passed in a frenzy of patriotic fever in July 1776, legislators were instructed to "elect some fit person within the Colony to be Governor."

In Belgrade, given strict censorship rules and the patriotic fever of wartime, few Serbs seemed to know much about events in Kosovo, or the Western reaction.

Call it belated patriotic fever, but I want to fight, too.

In any case, with patriotic fever running high since Sept. 11, employers are not looking for any legal loopholes, employment lawyers say.

And don't tell yourself it's because of patriotic fever, that you're once again heeding the trumpet's call.

Not everyone will be convinced by Ms. Tharp's somewhat artificial theme that living in Washington for 10 weeks is conducive to patriotic fever.