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Word: obsessional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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It seems patently absurd to abolish a method which has so many counts in its favor as has the lecture system. Moreover, there may well in small group teaching, for old Martin observes "Maybe it do well to have only small obsession with method grows, Chicago method, or with the...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: The Lecture System: Its Value at Harvard | 6/14/1962 | See Source »

To Victor Gruen, 58, a lively Vienna-born leprechaun, solving the problems of the deteriorating downtown has become something of an obsession. The automobile, he says, is downtown's most virulent enemy. "No automobile-not even the most elegant Cadillac-ever bought a thing." Dismount the shopper, free him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Filling the Doughnut | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

Simply put, Russia's writers are seeking truth. Evtushenko's verse and his contemporaries' conversation come back to the word time and again. Their generation has seen truth ripped from maps and histories; their search for facts is an obsession. After Stalin's death, Evtushenko went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: A Longing for Truth | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

Golf Inside a Prism. In his early work, Marin seemed under the influence of Whistler, but he quickly acquired a stamp wholly his own. He was fascinated by force, energy, bustle and movement, and this obsession dictated a fresh technique.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Out of the Dark Room | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

Many Americans regard Williams as an erotomaniac, for whom the mildest epithets are "sick" and "decadent." Yet taboo has often been the touchstone of drama. In the profoundest play of Greek tragedy, a man kills his father and marries his mother. Shakespeare and the Elizabethan drama drip with gore and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Angel of the Odd | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

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