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Modern Talk. Now living in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, Héctor Poleo hears so much talk of war that war has become an obsession. "I worry all the time. Everyone begin to talk about a new war. These people don't know the true war or else...
Sometimes the consequence is painful. There is the book whose title was taken from a line in T. S. Eliot's Waste Land: "I will show you fear in a handful of dust." A Handful of Dust tells about a dull Englishman whose dedicated obsession is to retrieve from...
. . . A grotesque and vicious caricature. TIME'S New York is one which dwells pointedly on its noise, crowding, aggressiveness, hellish glare at night, marijuana, cockroach-infested kitchens, tigerish and provocative women, obsession with the present, propensity to sneer at Philadelphia and jeer at Boston, and coolness to visitors . . .
Chennault says that Stilwell never once asked him to present an airman's picture of the China war. Chennault believes that Stilwell's initial defeat by the Japanese in Burma led to his obsession with the planning of a second Burma campaign which was to vindicate Stilwell'...
Frederick V. Hunt McKay Professor of Applied Physics, claimed his field was "too competitive" for persons lacking an obsession for research.