Word: obsessionals
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Duke is his name, and he is 15 years old. He inhabits a dingy tenement with his mother and her latest "husband," slopes through the shabby streets of Harlem day and night with a huddle of incipient hoods who call themselves the Pythons. Most of them are even younger than...
Fidel Castro's obsession is absolute mastery over his Red island. When things do not go as he wants them to, the result is uncontrolled fury. Two weeks ago Castro stormed into Cuba's Supreme Court chambers as a "witness" in a trial that he felt had not...
Queen Mother Martita Hunt is moved to say: "You have an obsession about him which is unhealthy and unnatural."
Burton-Becket hardly senses this obsession; his concern is his own soul, "Where honor should be, in me there is only a void," he tells his mistress (Sian Phillips). Then the easy-living courtier becomes archbishop, and fate summons him to uphold "the honor of God." But does he die...
The obsession with Generals stems from the heavy weight the grade carries in the ratio used to compute departmental Honors. Honors, in turn, are no longer simply an indication of specific achievement. They have become disproportionately important to students, chiefly because so many graduate schools are guided by them. More...