Word: obsessional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outside Distractions. "I think you have an obsession with secrecy, Mr. Webb," snapped Representative John W. Wydler of New York. Added Representative Ken Hechler of West Virginia: "I intend to be much more skeptical of NASA in the future, on this program and others."
His obsession with respectability and the practical politics of protest barely disguises an emotional, radical opposition to the war. At the end of the Harvard speech, someone asked him if draft resistance could be justified. Considering the nature of the Vietnam conflict, Vaughn said, he unequivocably condoned all forms of...
Johnson is Mailer's political obsession; his speech about LBJ at Berkeley last summer was cut off by the university radio station after ten minutes. Johnson, he said, invented the war to satisfy the rednecks who wanted to kill gooks, giving him an alternative to continued support of the civil...
Ray tells the story of an aristocrat whose pride and obsession with music take from him first his fortune and family, later his reason and life. Set against him throughout and surviving him at last is one of the new businessmen, a greased, grotesque man of the sort who scorns...
But if a shrinking world and the revival of the Catholic ethic are desirable goals for McLuhan, he is apparently not at all sure that they can be achieved quickly and without pain. The danger arises from mankind's obsession with the past. We look at life through a rear...