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Word: possessed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly all their variants, the young possess points of poignant common interest. From activists to acidheads, they like to deride their elders as "stick-walkers" and "sellouts." Fond of such terms as "fragmentation" and "anomie" in sketching their melodramatic self-portraits, many of them assume an attitude that borders on nihilism. To the standard adult charge of youthful irresponsibility, a young Californian can reply, as Authors J. L. Simmons and Barry Winograd show in It's Happening, with the emotional outrage of a John Osborne character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: The Inheritor | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...most austere resources. The set contains nothing but backdrops, two sets of somewhat bleacher-like steps for the chorus, and three marvelous pillars that, when necessary, rotate to become trees. Shadows from the chandelier give depth and subtlety to this classically simple (though simply unclassical) design. The costumes possess the same flexibility through simplicity. This was especially valuable for the chameron chorus which, throughout the opera, moves in and out of the role of a troop of witches. The blocking and choreography, however, seemed too plain and somewhat stiff, with the exception of an inspired milling, circling witches' dance early...

Author: By Stephen Hart, | Title: Dido and Aeneas | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

...more than a decade, the U.S. and the Soviet Union have maintained a nuclear balance of terror. Today the Russians possess approximately 400 intercontinental missiles, 125 submarine-launched missiles and 700 medium-range missiles targeted on Western Europe. The U.S. has 940 Minuteman ICBMs, which can take off in 32 seconds, 54 Titan II missiles, which carry considerably more megatonnage than the smaller Minuteman, and 608 sub-borne Polarises-1,602 birds in all. With additions already under way, the flock will soon total 1,720 and pack a combined wallop equal to 1.8 billion tons of TNT, more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Next, Poseidon | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

...misdemeanor in nine states, though the laws are rarely enforced. Even the Roman Catholic Church has modified its position. It is not unusual these days to give a suicide a proper Roman Catholic funeral and a consecrated grave, on the ground "that his demented soul did not possess sufficient freedom of will for his heinous deed to constitute a mortal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ON SUICIDE | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

...Lord Lansdowne to the London Times in 1917, suggesting in the midst of war that peace should be made before all was ruined. He had also learned in the trenches that what the top British call the "other ranks" were not without qualities that only officers were presumed to possess-courage, loyalty, humor and intelligence. As such, they were not to be exploited, and he brought this conviction with him into the House of Commons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: SupermacLooks Back | 9/30/1966 | See Source »

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