Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...himself "unqualified" for tenure. This challenge must be directed against all those Harvard administrators who fell that the Afro-American Studies Department has no rights that they are bound to respect. Those who seem to spend their whole lives denying to others the simple rights that they themselves already possess should find no measure of tolerance within a community committed to ideals of equality and justice...
Great playwrights differ in their gifts, but they possess one attribute in common. They create great characters, people who live long beyond the run of the play and stalk the corridors of the mind. Hamlet the play is 373 years old; Hamlet the character is immortal...
...essays written between 1946 and 1974, continues a lifetime of combat against what he calls "the original sin of ignorance" about East Asia. It is a sin, Fairbank feels, that can be resisted only with the help of a great deal more historical knowledge than most Americans now possess. The various pieces in the book are unified by the author's persistent attempt to show that the present behavior of both China and the West are largely determined by historical-cultural traditions that nobody, not even Chairman Mao or Henry Kissinger, can escape...
...usual, that our social system is unjust to the poor, but that it is cruel to the rich." In a characteristically long-winded preface that includes sweeping pronouncements on, among other things, the Catholic Church and the Soviet Union, he extends a scornful pity to those who possess a new kind of riches "detached from work, from responsibility, from tradition, and from every sort of prescribed routine, even from the routine of going to the village church every Sunday, paying and receiving calls, and having every month set apart for the killing of some particular bird or animal...
...from John Locke, who greatly influenced the founding fathers. Alexander Hamilton warned that if "a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority ... the sense of the smaller number will overrule that of the greater." Though Thomas Jefferson could proclaim in his first Inaugural Address that "the minority possess their equal rights," he called it a "sacred principle" that "the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail." That being so, what is so equal about minority rights...