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Wild Strawberries, Bergman's best, also argues that the measure of man is humanity rather than knowledge or achievement, but does so in a relaxed and skillfully developed study of a man who is made understandable. But throughout Virgin Spring, obsession is the key character trait. Ingeri, the slut who...
But Sidney III never developed the father's obsession for the game. He was too interested in too many other things -hockey, baseball and an elaborate game of stickball he invented and played with all his father's zest. Two years ago, young Sid left Yale to spend...
The Beat Hamlet. The self that is sick of self succumbs to self-analysis, self-pity, self-hate, and finally the obsession to be rid of self. "I am emptiness, I am not different from emptiness, neither is emptiness different from me; indeed, emptiness is me," says one of Kerouac...
It was only in 1868, at the age of 50, that Marx became sympathetic to the revolutionary movement which he perceived developing from the Emancipation of the Serfs in 1861. Czarist influence in 1843 had led to the suppression of Marx's political journal by the Prussian government, Rubel noted...
Melancholy Obsession. The unabashed sexuality of so many of his paintings was not the only thing that kept the public at bay: his view of the world was one of almost unrelieved tragedy, and it was too much even for morbid-minded Vienna. He was obsessed by disease and poverty...