Word: obsessionals
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Franny and Zooey, by J. D. Salinger. These two related novellas about the prodigious Glass family tell beautifully the story of Franny Glass's retreat from the dancing egos of the academic world to the frightening calm of religious obsession.
I HAVE said that Baldwin is intro-respective. He is also extremely self-conscious, and the combination produce in him a state of near hyper-sensitivity, toward both himself and others. This could be a crippling handicap; and even with Baldwin sensitivity does have drawbacks. One of these is a...
Words were Thurber's obsession; in one of his stories drunken friends burst in upon the narrator, forlornly sober, to tell him of the words they have found locked in other words:
Sandro, a rich contract estimator who mouths dreams of the creator he might have been, dominates the film--not as a person, but as an impulsive bundle of sex-oriented sex appeal. From the moment he makes a pass at Claudia--a few hours after Anna has inexplicably disappeared--to...
It was a fight that American Weekly could only lose. Unnoticed by Hearst, the U.S. newspaper reader had crawled out of the jungle and was demanding more edifying fare than the Weekly supplied. By comparison, the new supplements seemed positively intellectual, and as the Weekly declined, they thrived. The Weekly...