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Another obstacle is the new nations' obsession to get rid of all things associated with colonialism, including democratic customs. One ready substitute is socialism-or the vague authoritarian forms that many backward countries take to be socialism-for it offers a nice, revolutionary, anticolonial posture, and more or less...
After a visit to the U.S., Malcolm Muggeridge, onetime editor of Punch, complained: "I'd have joined a Trappist order rather than take more. All those ghastly novels-sex is an obsession with the Americans." Besides, adds Muggeridge, "if the purpose of pornography is to excite sexual desire, it...
That was probably the kiss of death. Over the past 15 years only three favorites have won at Churchill Downs. The wildest speculator on Wall Street would boggle at the boodle that has gone down the drain. Winning the Kentucky Derby may be every horseman's dream, but it...
There is nothing sinister about an interest in the human mind, and students have little to fear about being frank about an interest in psychiatry, provided they demonstrate that psychiatry for them is an interest--not an obsession--and that their minds are open to knowledge not immediately concerned with...
Yahoo Obsession. Author Dennis studies the Travels as a morbid acrostic of Swift's character. In Part IV, for instance, there are striking suggestions that Swift at this period of his life was dangerously schizoid, that he was identifying with the rational-spiritual principle (the Houyhnhnms) and repressing the...