Word: obsessionals
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The Bible says the reason that the flood came was that lawlessness had spread all over the world and sensuality had spread all over the world. Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be when the Son of Man comes back." He said there...
Valley was a pharmacological and gynecological nightmare. Reader interest, soaring along on a series of drug ingestions, couplings and nervous breakdowns, finally hit an apogee with breast cancer. Love Machine lacks Valley's primitive vigor but equals its obsession with pathology: leukemia, gall-bladder trouble, heart disease, neurasthenia and...
"We didn't know what we could do realistically," Kaplan said. "Students didn't perceive of the HUC as being a student government. The parietals obsession had made us mono-focused. The elections were indirect through the House Committees. And people at Harvard inherently don't like to feel that...
In the 19th century, a Hungarian statesman developed a temporary obsession with chess. He hired a student to play with him for ten hours a day. In the end, the statesman was cured -but the student went mad.
She defended her own obsession with Gothic eccentricity in plain terms. "To be able to recognize a freak, you have to have some conception of the whole man, and in the South the general conception of man is still, in the main, theological. It is most certainly Christ-haunted." She...