Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Feudal Chaos. The feudal chaos of special privileges is compounded by the fact that once most priests are installed in their parishes, they possess them for life as "parson's freeholds," and they cannot be budged except for heresy, grave crime or the promise of richer livings. As a result, about one-fifth of England's clergy gloom about in ghost parishes with a handful of communicants and faintly Trollopean titles. Another fifth can barely keep up with the man-killing spiritual work of fast-growing suburban parishes...
...admire Tillich's struggle with moral problems, even though his findings possess insuperable difficul- ties. It is hard indeed to imagine Being-Itself leading the chosen people out of Egypt. Likewise, it is difficult to believe that moral and physical laws are absolute in the same sense...
Washington's present position is that this must remain a U.S. responsibility. While the majority of Europeans might be willing to leave it at that, the Gaullist argument that in the 20th century only the possession of nuclear weapons can make a nation truly sovereign, simply will not die down. And sooner or later the Germans are bound to take it up, for the most powerful country in Europe, with a technical capacity probably greater than France's, cannot indefinitely be kept in the position of a second-class citizen without the nuclear rights its allies and neighbors...
...individuals, have met with major or minor misfortunes from beginning too young, and one of the worst consequences of these new social forces is that, just as there once was pressure on young people to retain their virginity until they got married, now there is pressure on them to possess experience, at whatever cost...
...deprecated his poetry because of his "imprecise" romanticism. But poetry is an art of masterpieces; a life's work of competent versifying has not the staying power of a single poem that lodges in the race's memory. Keats wrote four or five such poems, which possess that special magic without which a poem is merely verse. Although current poetic taste leans to the sinewy complexities of Donne and Eliot and Auden, Keats probably draws and has drawn more young readers to poetry than any other writer except Shakespeare...