Word: obsessional
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Frank Skinner, 69, Hollywood composer, who wrote orchestrations for more than 30 films, including The Great Ziegfeld (1936), The Magnificent Obsession (1954), and Away All Boats (1956), of cancer; in Hollywood.
During this period, his first marriage broke up, he underwent a course of psychiatric treatment with a disciple of Jung in a sanatorium near Lucerne. From 1912, he lived in Switzerland, where, until his death, he continued his spiritual struggle. "The true profession of a man," he said, "is to...
It is not unusual for Presidents to take control of detail like this in times of crisis. Kenedy did it for two weeks in October 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis. The problem was that the bombing of the North constituted a continuing crisis lasting for years. Lyndon Johnson's...
Partly because of his obsession with privacy-he refuses to reveal his first name, rarely gives interviews, shuns Parisian literary circles-Cioran is hardly better known in Europe than in the U.S. Yet there are impressive testimonials to his significance. Critic Susan Sontag, in her introduction to The Temptation to...
Possibly because of his own size (6 ft. 4 in., 212 Ibs.), Continental Airlines President Robert Forman Six has an obsession about the company that he has headed for 30 years: he would like tenth-largest Continental to be the biggest in some aspect of the aviation industry. Last week...