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Died. Frank Skinner, 69, Hollywood composer, who wrote orchestrations for more than 30 films, including The Great Ziegfeld (1936), The Magnificent Obsession (1954), and Away All Boats (1956), of cancer; in Hollywood.
During this period, his first marriage broke up, he underwent a course of psychiatric treatment with a disciple of Jung in a sanatorium near Lucerne. From 1912, he lived in Switzerland, where, until his death, he continued his spiritual struggle. "The true profession of a man," he said, "is to...
In disconnected episodes, the narrator of Steps reveals a condition of obsession that is all the more horrifying because of its controlled willfulness and absence of passion and spontaneity. He lures a young girl away from her village with a deck of credit cards. He observes sodomy between a woman...
But such comic relief is overwhelmed by the savage purity of Kosinski's vision -that of a man stripped of all humane conventions and in complete control of his impulses and appetites. In fact, the protagonist's obsession with control becomes indistinguishable from the book itself. Every word...
It is not unusual for Presidents to take control of detail like this in times of crisis. Kenedy did it for two weeks in October 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis. The problem was that the bombing of the North constituted a continuing crisis lasting for years. Lyndon Johnson's...