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In a letter printed in the Dec. 22 issue of Science magazine, the six professors warned that the new bill might create "an atmosphere of intellectual intimidation" and lead to the rejection of "a politically cantankerous but brilliant applicant." They criticized it as "a return toward an earlier McCarthyite obsession...
The Belgian scholar decried the "obsession in the United States for injecting the question of communism into situations where it is not a major issue." He said that building a nation and a better life for the Congo's people must come before participation in the East-West struggle.
Franny and Zooey, by J. D. Salinger. These two related stories about a young girl's brush with religious obsession are a superb part of the story cycle the author is writing about the prodigious Glass family.
In the year 1297, a Chinese official named Chou Ta-kuan was sent by his emperor on a reporting mission to the kingdom of Khmer, in the land that is now Cambodia. The Cambodians, he quickly decided, "are not what we would call civilized people." The women were depraved and...
Humbert Foucheval (played by author Lance Morrow) stole the bread from his church's altar when he was young, and has been playing out a whole series of Mr. Morrow's fantasies ever since. His obsession is carving a mountain into an equestrian status of Crazy Horse, which represents, among...