Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ideal educated man" including attributes quoted from the University's report on General Education, such as "be willing to exchange views in a fresh, clear manner." There were also more specialized intellectual attributes, such as "expect no more exactness than the subject permits," and practical abilities, such as "possess professional competence in some field...
...comics from coast to coast could nod in solemn understanding. For years a girl singer needed only to 1) be pretty, 2) have a good voice, 3) possess sufficient composure to clutch a microphone without falling off the bandstand. But television has added extra demands: more and more, singers are expected to save their breath for such nonvocal antics as handstands and soft-shoe routines...
...Pacific and Southeast Asia will quickly lose their freedom if they think that our love of peace means peace at any price. We must, if occasion offers, make it clear that we are prepared to stand firm and, if necessary, meet hostile force with the greater force that we possess...
...convey the immense sweep of the latter work and yet do justice to episodes of intimate chamber music is the formidable task facing the performers. They must possess not only virtuosity, but a delicate rapport in ensemble; not only forceful rhythmic drives, but the courage (and control) to bring a lengthy phrase to a hushed and protracted close. Mr. and Mrs. kohn seemed aware of the immensity of their task. Much of the playing was brilliant as well as subtle. Yet on the whole, the performances of the Schubert works left too many problems unsolved or only half-heartedly assaulted...
...before has he shown such firm and specific regard for the natural law and for basic religious principle. This emphasis is the key value of Lippmann's important book. He concludes: "Political ideas acquire operative force in human affairs when . . . they bind men's consciences. Then they possess, as the Confucian doctrine has it, 'the mandate of heaven.' In the crisis within the Western society, there is at issue now the mandate of heaven...