Word: possessed
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BERRYMAN's MOST recent book does not possess the unity necessary for comparision with a work of the magnitude of Dream Songs. At least one of the poems included in Delusions, Etc., "Scholars at the Orchid Pavilon," was begun over 20 years ago. Only its first section, the "Opus Dei," composed of the poems following the offices of the day, has the sustained internal coherence necessary to approach the consistent outlook of Dream Songs, and those eight poems are on a much more modest scale. In this final book, Berryman has created no character of the engaging importance of Henry...
Wheeler's eyes were shining. "[It's] the greatest story of our time, the one that will dazzle the entire Christian world, the one that will cause a rebirth in religion and a revival of faith. The papyri that were found-that we now possess-are the lost source of the Synoptic Gospels, the so-called Q document, a fifth but actually the first and original Gospel-the Gospel According to James...
When a company does something that may actually be illegal-falsifying statements of product quality, for example-an employee who is directly involved risks prosecution by remaining silent. A little-known federal law, on the books since 1790, compels persons who possess information about a felony to report it. In theory, federal and state laws against conspiracy and complicity apply to workers who aid and abet any illegal act committed in the name of a corporation. In a time when paid informers are in widespread use (see THE LAW), the legal position of employees who speak up will become...
...sermon. And yet I can't help being ambivalent. I don't think I've ever seen a large group of people so fully focused on the same vibration at the same time. Everyone fell wholly into the rhythm of the sermon, everyone had to reach out and possess each maxim as if it were a truth of infinite wisdom that had never been expressed before. An organic interchange of energy and enlightenment flamed up with every sentence, accelerating until all strength was spent. The polar opposite of a Harvard lecture...
...skill and valiance; Follies celebrates women who have learned to sift the grain of truth from the chaff of illusion, and the paths to its box office windows are now only half-beaten. What better evidence that the theater cannot profess a maturity that its audiences do not possess...