Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Disillusion at Dawn. At the novel's outset, the major-driven by a pitiable need to search for whatever goads some men to bravery-has got hold of one medal candidate. Thorn gets permission to escort him, and whomever else he finds worthy of the medal, back to the rear-area encampment at Cordura. Next day he watches his old regiment clatter through a last cavalry charge, and with judgment perhaps clouded by shame, picks the four most spectacular performers of the battle to receive the medal. With his five picked soldiers and a saddle-toughened woman prisoner...
...faces of dishonest judges, misery in the eyes of clowns-and finally he depicted faith and goodness in Christ. He expressed himself in paint so thick that at times it seems to glow like stained glass, at other times burns against the black outlines like live coals. Driven by an unremitting artistic conscience, he agonized over some of his paintings for 25 years before he finally considered them finished. Though his greatness is now undenied, he lived in near penury until he was over 40. To gain a minimum of security, he signed an exclusive contract with Art Dealer Ambroise...
...Goldfarb made his decision, no one could say. But instead of responsible action, the tragedy merely provoked the ugliest kind of recriminations. At the funeral, President Charles Silver of the Board of Education and Superintendent of Schools William Jansen charged to newsmen that Principal Goldfarb had probably been driven to suicide because a grand juror had threatened that he might "be indicted." The jury's foreman immediately denied the accusation, countercharged that the suicide was the result of Goldfarb's fear that his superiors would take revenge on him for cooperating in the grand jury's inquiry...
...firing time approached, the bucket, driven by a small electric motor, began to rotate. This motion had the same purpose as the spin of a rifle bullet: to "spin-stabilize" the upper stages of the rocket. It would also check any tendency to veer off course if any of the small rockets in the bucket should ignite later than the others, or burn erratically...
Overcome by his failure to father a son and goaded by his wife's growing insanity, the slow-speaking, stubborn immigrant turned sullenly away from his disintegrating family. Years later, beaten in a bloody strike by his fellow workers, betrayed by his bosses, driven out of his senses by the sight of his wife huddled in the rocking chair she has not left for almost 20 years, Stanislaw drinks himself blind. In a wild rage against man and God, he fulfills his obsession. That incestuous obsession concerns Stella-and, by the story's end, it explains her desperate...