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There are ways to deny the painful transitoriness of existence at culturally permissible levels. Sex is one of them, and May devotes a large part of his book to examining the "new puritanism," which escapes the commitments of love by concentrating on the act. In the present obsession with physical...
The quality of an obsession should be measured not only by its height but also by its length. Ingmar Bergman's towering concern has endured a lifetime, and it has centered on a single theme: the silence of God. Of late, that silence has been as clamorous as a...
Zorza's obsession with details would be somewhat less overbearing if he had recorded those details corectly. As he has them, the dates for the SDS meeting which decided on the occupation, the occupation itself, and the bust are all one day late; he dedicates the book to Cambridge city...
That legal maneuver was hardly calculated to quiet dissent. Most of the protest, though, was aimed at Southeast Asia. The outcry was so intense that the Administration seemed to have reduced its room for military maneuver rather than extended it. McGeorge Bundy argued convincingly last week that the Cambodian action...
Engine of Commerce. The point is as clear as it is contemporary. Money and goods are what the Venetian world turns on. But in Miller's conception, the obsession is shared not only by Shylock and his fellow usurers but also among those who look down on Shylock-Christian...