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The result is a stinging book that not only documents Kiev murders but also describes in detail the microcosm of a boy's world dissolving into unspeakable and incomprehensible patterns of horror. Each day was a constant obsession with the search for a crust of bread, the feverish reading...
Its threat is its anti-intellectualism, its emotionalism, its irrationalism, and its obsession with the glorious end it sees that justifies any means. Some Sing-Out Kids are saying that MRA could be a force in the 1968 elections.
But it is to Miss Anschuetz's and her director's credit that the power of her static presence is so firmly established that in scenes where she appears only as a blown-up photograph on the wall, we are very much aware of her proximity to the sequence. In...
Flaubert never erased that self-appraisal. Its vanity, its self-obsession would later be reflected in the tragic contours of the woman of whom her creator liked to say: "Emma Bovary -c'est moi."
His presence in the Senate is particularly significant at a time when the civil rights revolution has been deadlocked by Negro militants' demagogic obsession with black power?an attitude that former Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel P. Moynihan describes in Commentary as "a frenzy of arrogance and nihilism."