Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus the Lions face the Crimson this morning armed with their potent weapon of weakness. Probably unfortunately for the New Yorkers, they do possess certain elements of strength. Jon Newman, their goalie, has been superb in his three performances to date despite the lack of support from his teammates...
...idea is to make children hunger for learning, to want to possess it. Teacher Ashton-Warner discarded orthodox books, charts and lesson plans in favor of "the moving currents of children's interests," whatever they might be, in "the hot prison of the moment." In the formal sense, she says, "I teach style, and only style...
...Name. French kings longed to possess Languedoc. Innocent III loathed it as the center of the strange Cathar religion, the last great Christian heresy (before the Reformation) to shake the power of Rome. Laying siege to Béziers, the French came in God's name, seeking heretics. But once inside, they slaughtered until the red crosses on their white tunics were lost in blood; in 51 hours, they put to death the city's entire population...
...Depravity. The Gnostics of early Christianity, who claimed to possess a "secret wisdom" left them by Jesus, argued that they were exempt from provisions of moral law, and for so believing were expelled from the church. The British monk Pelagius, who died around 418, in effect contended that man could achieve salvation by his own actions apart from God's gift of grace; he was formidably countered by St. Augustine of Hippo, who emphasized the utter depravity of man and the absolute necessity of Christ's death at Calvary for redemption...
Richard Rodgers' lyrical abilities do not come upto those of his former partners, Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein, but his songs possess a modern quality different from those he wrote with collaborators. The universality of many Rodgers and Hammerstein compositions (like South Pacific's "You Have to Be Taught") is missing in No Strings. Few of the songs, with the exception of the title song and "The Sweetest Sounds" are meaningful out of context...