Word: obsessionals
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First, they scoff at University administrators' concerns that the sky-rocketing costs of employee benefits plans need to be reined in before they pose a serious threat to Harvard's financial health. It seems the staff hasn't heard of the nationwide obsession with benefits--does the Clinton health care...
His obsession with connecting black social misery to Jewish power, including his ugly characterization of Judaism as a "gutter religion" used to legitimate the state of Israel at the expense of Palestinians, is vintage anti-Semitic ideology. Judaism -- like any religion -- can be used for good or bad. His claim...
Writer Robert Olen Butler comes into this long, claustrophobic novel of erotic obsession with a powerful charge of literary momentum, including a Pulitzer Prize last year for a fine short story collection, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. He's still on his feet at the end of They...
Whether this is effective is a matter of taste -- and endurance. Butler's earlier fiction, mostly about Americans in Vietnam and Vietnamese in the U.S., is tight and controlled (The Alleys of Eden and The Deuce are two of his novels). Here he deals obsessively with obsession, and in his...
The staff has fallen prey to a common contagion of this day: an obsession with equality and with it, the intolerance of inequality.