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Tall, white-haired James Finney Lincoln of Cleveland is a hard man to his foes-and a gold mine to his employes. His obsession on incentive pay has led him into one head-on collision after another with the U.S. Treasury, the U.S. Navy, and even the U.S. Congress (TIME...
For the realism of the pessimist overlooks, too, the possibility that the American people, for all their wartime grabbing and grumbling, their nagging obsession with gasoline, meat and chewing-gum shortages, may be possessed of a deep sense of the world crisis in which they are involved, may be growing...
"[Hitler's] sleepwalking manner is greatly accentuated and now gives place only rarely to the old flashes of violent energy. It is disconcerting to talk with him as his eyes wander away. . . . [His] preoccupation as to 'what the English think' has grown into something like an obsession...
Diseases of the Left. Deafness aside, Freeman is a man to whom liberty is neither a slogan nor a parade salute, but a wrenching, incandescent obsession. In his characters he gives powerful symbols of the conflicting indispensables of genuine revolution or civilization-Intellect, Heart and Action. His findings suggest-though...
When Lloyd Douglas (Magnificent Obsession, Disputed Passage) was a little boy, his parson father used to tell him Bible stories. Says Author Douglas: "If he needed to throw in a little drama to make the story even more interesting, why he threw it in."