Word: obsessional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Black Shadow. For no man could have been more wholly in the South and of the South. William Faulkner was deeply, almost mystically, attached to the land. He was the great-grandson of a man who had owned slaves; his father ran only a livery stable. But Faulkner's...
Collie's spatial-absolutes represent a marriage of technology and art, but science is clearly the stronger partner. Yet Collie insists that he is no technological faddist catering to a novelty-hungry art public that is ready to pay $1,000 to $3,500 for his floating sculpture. In...
> There was the obsession with polls. For months, surveys have shown Goldwater's stock down with "rank and file" Republicans and with that elusive voter classified as "independent." This week the Gallup poll reported Lodge favored by 37% of Republicans, Nixon by 28% , Goldwater by 14%, Rockefeller by 9...
Duke is his name, and he is 15 years old. He inhabits a dingy tenement with his mother and her latest "husband," slopes through the shabby streets of Harlem day and night with a huddle of incipient hoods who call themselves the Pythons. Most of them are even younger than...
Fidel Castro's obsession is absolute mastery over his Red island. When things do not go as he wants them to, the result is uncontrolled fury. Two weeks ago Castro stormed into Cuba's Supreme Court chambers as a "witness" in a trial that he felt had not...