Word: obsessionals
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Capacity for Greatness. Every nation is obsessed with one problem which is the measure of its capacity for greatness: Egypt with immortality; Greece with beauty; Rome with administration and law; France with rationalism; Germany with war; Britain with the freedom of the individual man. India, islanded by sea and land...
Slowly, as they came to bloody grips with their exotic enemy, Americans were beginning to realize that to the Japanese mind (an entity utterly alien to them in culture and almost as uncontemporary with them as Neanderthal man), the Emperor Hirohito was Japan. In him was embodied the total enemy...
One of Detroit's citizens stepped up to the microphone one night last week and told how he had "hit bottom" as an alcoholic. To underline his confession, some of the more melodramatic and sordid aspects of his past were dramatized. Then he told of his regeneration. Summed up...
Dowson was reared in the quaint, foggy, family home that stood on one of the wings of the family drydock in east London's Limehouse. Tuberculous Father Alfred Dowson was far more interested in talking with his friends, Algernon Swinburne and Robert Louis Stevenson, than in keeping "Dowson'...
Pale, egotistical student Jonathan Crow, whose only response to her love was an endless and epicene discussion of sex, was her obsession. She followed him to London, found him unchanged: churlish, perverse, still unable to bring himself either to accept her love or to reject it.