Accorsi said that despite the rumors the Giants were intent on trading up from their No. 4 slot to grab Manning, the Mississippi quarterback, with the top spot, he had no such obsession.
There's a reason such obsessions flourish in New York.
On the other hand, such obsessions probably help him more than they hurt.
I don't even think that people who act out such obsessions understand them — perhaps they understand them least of all.
Psychiatrists said that while such obsessions are not typically a part of schizophrenia, they are consistent with the delusions the disorder can breed.
They were fixated, like so many peoples of antiquity, with gods, masculinity, sex and death – their present-day descendants might be guilty of just such obsessions – although life can be easier now.
Whatever the particular ritual or routine, such obsessions can be paralyzing, and they interfere with a child's ability to socialize, perform in school or, as a teen-ager, hold a job.
A few others — such as his characters and their real-life models — are even more deeply in the grip of such obsessions and in less control of their behavior; millions of others, when confronted with the evidence, find the secret stirrings deep within themselves, too; it's the difference, of course, between psychopaths and viewers, as well as the connection.
Such obsessions are not unique to the right: Writing three years after the death of Franklin Roosevelt, historian Richard Hofstadter noted that FDR so thoroughly monopolized the liberal imagination that his passing "left American liberalism demoralized and all but helpless". But today, conservatives are the helpless ones.
A few others—such as his characters and their real-life models are even more deeply in the grip of such obsessions and in less control of their behavior; millions of others, when confronted with the evidence, find the secret stirrings deep within themselves, too; it's the difference, of course, between psychopaths and viewers, as well as the connection.
