Word: fanaticize
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In 1952, with independence only two years away, Minh transferred to the newly formed Vietnamese army with the grade of major. After a stint of advanced study at Paris' general staff school, he returned and, following Diem's installation in 1955, launched his guerrilla-style campaign against the...
Santayana's autobiography, Persons and Places, now issued complete in one volume for the first time, is less autobiography than a series of biographies of his contemporaries. The ideal human life, wrote Santayana, is an "evolution of a given seed toward its perfect manifestation." Most of Santayana's...
Felsenstein's ability to ignore the sentiments his home address should imply has made him a scoundrel in many eyes. He makes enemies by cheerfully accepting culture prizes from the East Germans for whom he works - and it is no secret that he was willing to bring his Jewish...
THE UNMENTIONABLE NECHAEV, by Michael Prawdin. The story of the youthful fanatic who became the model for the nihilist Verkhovensky in Dostoevsky's classic study of the ethics and psychology of revolutionaries, The Possessed, and who devised the bleak, dehumanized code of conspiracy and terror that became the model...
THE UNMENTIONABLE NECHAEV, by Michael Prawdin. The story of the youthful fanatic who became the model for the nihilist Verkhovensky in Dostoevsky's classic study of the ethics and psychology of revolutionaries, The Possessed, and who devised the bleak, dehumanized code of conspiracy and terror that became the model...