Word: obsession
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these moral decisions--and all their shades of gray--that obsess Nadine Gordimer. Burger's Daughter dramatizes Rosa Burger's search for a cause to which she can commit herself, while accepting her fears, doubts, and ambivalence...
...Traumatic recollections of the Yom Kippur War continue to haunt and obsess the Israelis," said former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban two weeks ago in Tel Aviv at the First International Conference on Psychological Stress and Adjustment in War and Peace. The war was "a psychological disaster," added Psychologist Richard Lazarus of the University of California at Berkeley. It "may signal the start of a major personality change for Israelis." Constant political tensions, he added, have turned Israel into a "great natural laboratory" for the psychosciences...
...years he lived up to that pledge. At the other end of things is Rockefeller, whose sense of what is appropriate now is fine-tuned. A few hours after his swearing-in, the Vice President mused to friends that gaining public attention was something that not only did not obsess him any longer, but something that should purposefully be avoided. Even when discounted, his remark had a ring of sincerity...
...directly mentioning the scandal, President Nixon declared: "Let others spend their time dealing with the murky, small, unimportant, vicious little things. We have spent our time and will spend our time in building a better world." Moments later, he deplored again "the petty little indecent things that seem to obsess...
...question that seems to obsess the 20th century. Staring into the glassy eyes of the madman, just what does one see reflected? An empty room? A fellow sufferer? The family circle, crowding close? An entire culture? Students of mind seem to have learned from students of matter that the smashed atom will reveal astonishing forces lurking within the normal...