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Word: heave (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nanny with Gothic tastes in murder stories and a puritanical Catholic schooling-the nuns frowned on the theater- were hardly needed to complete the job. Before he was 15, young Eugene had cut himself off from his church, but not from his sense of damnation. "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell" was his new credo. He had become the most savage of insurrectionists: the rebel with a bad conscience. In one of his last interviews he confessed: "Revenge is the subconscious motive for the individual's behavior with the rest of society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Will to be Great | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

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