Word: obsessionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As the months passed, students and facultymen began to realize that there was something very strange about Makar. When he wasn't haranguing about photogrammetry, his major obsession, he was blasting the U.S. or excoriating his students for their stupidity. Eventually, so many of his students complained about his...
Last week the U.S. embassy in Stockholm revealed that the Makars had written a letter "without a return address" renouncing their U.S. citizenship. During their stay in Sweden, they had gone to the Soviet embassy, declared their desire to become Soviet citizens, had finally boarded a plane for Moscow. There...
The travelers were Edward Hopper, painter extraordinary, and his wife Jo. Painter Hopper was hard at his usual work: eyewitnessing America. The American scene is not only Edward Hopper's one subject, but his obsession as well. He stares with sober passion at the most ordinary things about the...
The belief that God created man "in His own image" was apparently alien to Simone Weil, who could not see why God, who is infinite, should create something "that is outside himself, that is not himself." The only way to bridge the contradiction, she felt, was through Christ on the...
"Our national obsession with leadership," he said, has led us to pay more respect to "the practical-minded rather than the theoretical-minded man." The population increase of the past few years has also, according to Jones, lowered the standards of higher education.