Word: perturb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Turkish progress under the kinetic impulsion of President Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the Ghazi, the Victorious One, was so rapid, last week, as to dazzle if not perturb Occidentals...
...that sounds ludicrous and a little contemptible to Italians. Another man might be annoyed but not "Shoot" Gubbio. He can contemplate worse than that with equanimity. The futility of mechanical "art," for example. Even the suicide of Giorgio Mirelli, a boy-genius whom he has tutored, does not greatly perturb him. Nor even the strange daemon of the beautiful woman who caused the boy's suicide. Emotionless? Oh, no. But he has taught himself to control his emotions so that he can serve the spider and yet preserve something more important than emotions: his soul, if you like...