Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kremlin possess power that is potentially limitless and unrestrained in its exercise; they could blow the whistle on reform any day and reimpose at least some of the tight discipline of the past. Once fully launched, however, liberalization may not be so easy to stop. The vast reorganization of the Soviet economy and the increasing force of technology are producing a second revolution in the habits and outlook of the people that the Kremlin will be hard-pressed to reverse. If that revolution continues to work its influence, arousing among Russians a longing to join the modern world and giving...
...opinion. If imponderable, this climate is probably the most influential single factor in determining individual decisions in a university and thereby deciding what the university really is. Naturally the faculty plays a decisive part as well. But I wonder if the students actually realize how much influence they do possess. Some years ago a colleague remarked to me that the top students determined the character of any given department. He may well have been correct. I have yet to know a scholar who did not respond in some fashion to the flow of written and oral arguments presented by good...
...Small Price. Far more than the 60-man Senate, the newly chosen House mirrors the frailties and divisions of Vietnamese political life. Though the average age of the winning candidates is 40, few have any experience in national politics, and only about half possess any identifiable political allegiance. They range from ultraconservative nationalists to radical, non-Communist leftists, and include 16 representatives of Viet Nam's ethnic minorities, 18 former Deputies in the Assembly that wrote the new constitution, 27 military officers on leave or retired, 33 civil servants, 25 teachers and 14 militant Buddhists. Despite widespread fears that...
...another way, however, Nat himself resembles today's Negro. Unlike most slaves, Nat received a sense of identity through education and the promise of freedom; he lived in his master's house and saw the good things he was missing but soon might possess with his freedom. His hopes were taken away, and, like Negroes who anticipated equality after the 1954 Supreme Court decision, he was left with frustrations and bitterness. Violence and furious retribution climaxed the frustrations and allowed the rebels to find a sense of dignity...
...aged mother, feel the responsibility of kinship and yet find no moral context for the idea of murder. The law for Bonnie and Clyde is merely the agent of a hostile universe. Clyde's gun, which so mesmerizes Bonnie when she first sees it, is the only potency they possess in the face of total anonymity. But it is, for a time, a very real potency, and Penn refuses to flinch at this fact. The script demands that the audience recognize the power of violence to make Bonnie and Clyde whole, even as it engulfs them. In a dusty...