Word: obsessionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MacLeish also joins other poets in his obsession with time. Writing of The Farm which lasts through generations, he asks, "Why do you listen, trees? Why do you wait? Why do you fumble at the breeze-- Gesticulate ...?" These works on time are the least interesting, the most prosaic because the...
In two flashbacks, Donat portrays the haphazard life of William Friese-Greene, inventor of the first motion picture camera (the magic box). Friese-Greene was infatuated with the idea of making slides move both black and white and color. This idea soon became an obsession which dominated his life. Giving...
Unhappily, its credo includes such items as belief that dishonesty and disregard for ethics are simply a price the nation must pay--indeed, should be pleased to pay--in return for Liberal government. The freedom and the diversity that local responsibility permits counts for nothing, either, when compared to the...
Tough Talk. Then Stevenson turned to the offensive. Ike, he said, "has now adopted the theory of Senator Taft, who unsmilingly states that the greatest threat to liberty today is the cost of our own Federal Government." Later Stevenson described the Taft argument as "the dreary obsession that we must...
To Lord, local history is something of an obsession. The best way to understand America, he believes, is to understand the details that make it up. He has persuaded the Wisconsin legislature to make the society custodian of all official records, which allows it to sort and preserve documents that...