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Word: possessed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your June 20 story about Archbishop Ritter's declaring that no Roman Catholic student may attend a non-Catholic institution unless written permission is obtained from the archdiocese: to this I say hogwash ! To imply that Catholic educational institutions alone possess and dispense truth is tantamount to admitting "fear of truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 11, 1960 | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

...scenery might be no more than a placard reading "A Wood Near Athens" (see cut). To judge by the traffick rush to the Stratfords, today's audiences agree with Critic Maurice Morgann, who wrote of Shakespeare in 1774: "It is safer to say that we are possessed by him, than that we possess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STAGE: To Man From Mankind's Heart | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

...current issue of Harper's Bazaar, Photographer Richard Avedon tries to show that all women possess a quality that he calls "The Sphinx Within." With seven international glamour girls as his subjects, Avedon got them to look slinkily feline under a variety of hairdos purporting to be Egyptian. He achieves his most eye-catching effect with Heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, thereby moving another glamorous tigress, New York Mirror Society Chatterist "Suzy" to comment: "When they make her a plain jane on those TV potboilers, they spoil a good thing." Said Harper's Bazaar of Avedon's gallery girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 11, 1960 | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...present long-term 3.2%-per-year rate of growth will possess the potential in manpower and technology to raise the nation's standard of living close to 25% during the next decade. So the Labor Department predicted this week in a major new study of U.S. manpower. The nation can also increase the production of goods and services at least 45% to a gross national product of $731.7 billion (see chart) and may reach $750 billion. But achieving a three-quarters of a trillion dollar economy by 1970, said Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell, hinges on the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The $750 Billion Challenge | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

...passionate subjectivity" which she finds lacking in theatre today. "I think that people who are not subjective are dull-I believe in total involvement. The theater is not just stages and actors and tickets, it is the audience. Actors owe it to their audience to participate with them, to possess them, to let them help in the creation of a spirit...

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: Siobhan McKenna | 1/19/1960 | See Source »

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