Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...university is one of the outstanding schools in the country-we even possess a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa-and such a policy is a direct threat to freedom in education and is innately repulsive...
Darren finds it easy to possess the body of Sloan Rowland (Yvette Mimieux), the kid sister of "King" Howland (Charlton Heston), a fellow who owns the best part of Kauai-and that ain't Welfare Island. But winning her hand is quite another matter. Big Brother draws the color line, and when Darren tries to cross it, he just happens to fall on a knife that Heston just happens to be holding...
...sets of underwear (he insisted they were "Confederate suits," not union suits) beneath his clothes to guard against the Yankee-like cold snap, Wallace threatened a Dixiecrat rebellion. Said he: "We intend to carry our fight for freedom across this nation, wielding the balance of power we know we possess in the Southland . . . We, not the insipid bloc voters of some sections, will determine in the next election who shall sit in the White House of these United States...
Desire Under the Elms, by Eugene O'Neill, seems, after 38 years, as familiar as inherited folklore. It is the mid-19th century New England saga of the flinty, greedy. God-bedeviled, lust-maddened Cabot clan and its internecine struggle over the family farm. To possess it. the sons wish their father dead, brother plots against brother, a young woman marries a fanatical old man, seduces his son to obtain an heir, and murders the infant to repossess the son's love. George C. Scott plays the fire-breathing old father Ephraim with monomaniacal force. As the woman...
...alienation from himself, from other me, from the absolute. "The crows maintain." he wrote, "that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of this, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heavens simply means: the impossibility of crows." Heavens that possess crows must stop being heavens; laws that touch men abandon justice...