Word: fanaticized
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>In Vienna, Sigmund Freud was invariably "out of town for reasons of health" whenever Dali sought an interview. Dali "held long imaginary conversations with Freud," saw him one night "clinging to the curtains of my room in the Hotel Sacher." Several years later Dali was eating snails in a French...
Fanatic or not, there is no doubt that Dali can turn it on with words as well as paint. Writes he of the kitchen in his boyhood home: "Behind the partly open kitchen door I would hear the scurrying of those bestial women with red hands; I would catch glimpses...
The man whose legions of fanatic peasants finally captured Morazán after 18 turbulent years of early federation was an illiterate swineherd named Rafael Carrera. He later became known as "General Cholera Morbus," because he claimed that those opposing him spawned a cholera plague by poisoning wells. His support...
Pir is only 34, a little pock-marked and addicted to sadism, but a man after the Hurs' hearts. They are a cattle-grazing tribe of some 100,000, whose poor homeland of sand, scrub jungles and marshes has made them perverse. They are Moslems, but they build their...
None has caught it so understandingly as the 20 pages of Robert Louis Stevenson's essay on Yoshida-Torajiro, Japan's mid-19th Century fanatic on westernization, who used to keep awake for his midnight studies by putting mosquitoes up his sleeve. No recent book has probed the...