Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wolfe arrived in Boston after four years at a state college in North Carolina. His first, and most enduring, impression of Harvard was symbolized by Widener Library, Maxwell Geismar writes: "As a young man he had been driven wild by the sight of the Harvard Library--by the fact that the volumes were appearing on the shelves faster than he could read them, and the fact that simultaneously, while he was reading, outside, on the bare New England streets, were passing thousands of faces he had not seen, people he had not talked with, lives he had not known...
...Well, my 'art' has kept me ragged and driven me half mad; --I will see now if prostitution can put a few decent garments on my back and keep me housed. My good friends, Professor Baker included, have told me for years now of 'my great talent,' 'my artistry,' and so on--they have told me it would be a terrible thing for me to do anything else but write. They have said, 'You have it--it's bound to come'--but not once has anyone given me advice on the simple matter of keeping the breath of life...
...government replied by calling a 30-day state of siege, and charged Ydigoras with plotting in connivance with "Communist groups." Some 300 helmeted troops and cops, armed with Tommy guns and armored cars, deployed before the National Palace, but the raging mob formed again, and charged until driven off by tear gas and cracking rifles. A girl died of a bullet in the back of her head; downtown Guatemala City was littered with broken glass, tree limbs and burnt crates...
...celebrate his first trip to the U.S., Huang insisted on being driven directly from Los Angeles to Yosemite National Park. Once there, he leaped from the car and began a watercolor on the spot (see cut). How does the scenery compare with his beloved Kialing River? Replies Huang: "The landscape is not too different. But American trees are too uniform; Chinese trees are more interesting. What I missed most was the mist." For Huang this presented no insuperable problem. He simply left blank areas of rice paper to indicate the mist, in one view added two Chinese fishermen...
...Artie and Judd, Roddy McDowall and, even more, Dean Stockwell, give brilliant performances. But the dozens of moments are not cumulative. Except as a history of a master-and-slave relationship, of an Artie who, devoid of normal feeling, must subsist on diseased sensation, and a Judd slowly driven by sexual feeling into becoming Artie's companion in evil-except, in other words, for what has happened before Compulsion begins-its materials permit no inner development. Balked of psychological progression, or even moral catharsis. Compulsion can only-during its very protracted trial scene-fall back on sociological debate...