Word: possess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That was you, America, before the Vietnam war: welling with arrogance, and unwilling to take a licking. In The Great Santini, writer/director Louis John Carlino has personified the America of the early '60s as extremist, an example of what the excessive confidence and arrogance becomes when it possess men. But The Great Santini is more than a snapshot of an era; it is an exposition of the state of racial relations in the South, a treatment of adolescence in a time of changing and conflicting values, and a movie about death. With this many themes, it takes on the aspect...
...major and minor sinners strides Richmond in the fifth act, as a model of saintly sanity (again inaccurate history on the playwright's part). From what he has to do in the role it is impossible to gauge the acting ability of Michael O'Hare, but he does possess a warm and beautiful voice. His main function is to fight Richard to the death. So we have Moriarty, Dartmouth '63, pitted against O'Hare, Harvard '74. After too brief a bit of swordplay, Harvard wins and will ascend the throne as Henry...
Justices Marshall, Stevens, William Brennan and Harry Blackmun wrote four separate dissenting opinions. But all agreed that the court majority was permitting Congress to deny poor women the constitutional right to an abortion, which the court itself had said all women possess. The Government, said Stevens, must govern impartially. He condemned the Hyde Amendment as "an unjustifiable, and indeed blatant, violation" of that duty...
...Grandfather Albert Morrow, a 19th century U.S. Cavalry officer. The younger Morrow's meditation on the rediscovery of America appears in the Nation section, but he brings to the subject the same subtlety, wit and fascination with new concepts that animate his Essays. Says Morrow: "For me, ideas possess both drama and real, physical, palpable force...
...means of fair and reasonable offers of accommodation to the other groups, it might give them little option except to ensure their political survival by more authoritarian means. But they would find it hard to live long with authoritarianism in light of the democratic tradition and spirit they possess, at least among themselves...