Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Readers of Evan Connell's The Connoisseur already know Karl Muhlbach, the middle-aged insurance executive and widower who developed a quiet obsession with pre-Columbian art. An innately cool eye for authenticity got him started. Muhlbach's sudden desire to possess statuary caused him embarrassment. In Double Honeymoon, Muhlbach again decides to take a risk within limits. This time it is a brief fling with a beautiful young girl every bit as exotic and cracked as a piece of pre-Columbian pottery...
...seek a student body that combines diversity with the highest intellectual talent, why should any group be subject to a predetermined and seemingly arbitrary limit? If students at Radcliffe perceive that they alone are barred admission beyond a certain number regardless of the talents and accomplishments they possess, can they avoid the conclusion that Harvard values women the less...
...conceivable that such an appearance could have been someone's idea of a joke. Grizzly, however, bears no internal evidence that the film makers possess a sense of humor. The only human emotion apparently familiar to them is greed. They cast the movie either with worn faces (George, Andrew Prine, Richard Jaeckel) or yokels who must have been discovered hanging around the Georgia location. Then they turned their attentions to having most of this motley assembly torn asunder by a marauding bear who is, in fact, rather cute. Since the bear seems such a regal, friendly creature, and since...
Having participated in the Harvard varsity baseball program for the past three seasons, we feel we possess the genuine knowledge of the game to accurately comment on this past spring...
...think I am joking, but be sure to check it with others who have been in an Iranian prison. They will tell you that you get at least one year in prison if you possess a copy of Gorky's Mother or any one of Jack London's novels. Since Lenin read Jack London novels, no one in Iran should read them. They may suddenly decide to become Lenin, and that on the basis of reading three novels...