Word: obsessionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though lacking sharpness, A View is for most of the way powerful and tense. Only near the end do things slacken, so that the play concludes with no great tragic impact. This may partly lie in Van Heflin, who, playing a character that Miller made more obsession than man, is...
From Pearl Harbor to an Obsession
Grover placed second in Rhode Island's Matanuck Beach-Block Island race in 1950 and fifth in a 1954 endurance swim at Atlantic City, N.J., in 1954. His interest in long distance swimming grew almost maniacal, so much so that it developed into an obsession which dominated his thinking and...
The Educational Front. A $250,000 foundation set up by Montreal Barrister Charles Glass Greenshields will teach young painters the fundamental tech iques and principles of their craft. Greenshields, who paints seashore scenes in his spare time, deplores the fact that few young artists today get enough basic training. He...
Dark Night of the Soul. The life of contemplation has its occupational diseases. Sisters sometimes suffer shattering doubts about the genuineness of their vocation, or an onslaught of "scrupulosity"-obsession with insignificant imperfections that begin to loom like mortal sins. Most agonizing of all is spiritual dryness, analyzed by St...