Word: obsessionals
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"Is it not time that we threw off our sentimental obsession about losing well and changed over to the psychology of winning well?" Baxter demanded. "Let our cricketers decide now that when the Australians come to England they shall be pounded into submission . . . Our lawn tennis players might decide now...
What follows is predictable, yet always moving. As Silvio loses himself in his literary obsession, Leda becomes bored, is seduced by a commonplace Casanova, Silvio's barber. In a climax of selfdiscovery, Silvio realizes that his wife has been unfaithful, that he is a failure as a writer, and...
Died. Lloyd C. (for Cassel) Douglas. 73, novelist; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. At 52, Lutheran Minister Douglas began a fifth collection of essays which somehow wound up as a novel. Magnificent Obsession, a fictionalized tribute to good works, sold nearly 700,000 copies its first year. After...
Caught up in the current--and possibly valid--obsession that the primary duty of a basketball coach is to win games, Holman admitted his bitterness about the five games City has dropped to date. "Only one of them was lost legitimately," he complained, but added quickly, "Not that my boys...
Odd, perhaps unparalleled in history, was this obsession with danger by leaders of a nation as strong as the U.S. The beaten and the besieged naturally think in terms of survival, not of opportunity. For them, there is good reason to forget that, in human way to concentrate on survival...