Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while the Harvard frisbee might not enjoy the Varsity status of big-name college sports like football or basketball, it does possess an impressive record...
...Yale Corporation, the school's governing board, met with about 70 undergraduates in a breakfast meeting and discussed what qualification the school's new leader should possess...
Stories are precious, indispensable. Everyone must have his history, her narrative. You do not know who you are until you possess the imaginative version of yourself. You almost do not exist without it. Blacks were mostly excluded or held in the margins of the national story. As Spike Lee knows, blacks more than other Americans need their stories now, the recovered histories of what they have been and fantasies of what they might be. The American family, as well, desperately needs a new folklore, a new driving myth. The old version, which in caricature is a 1950s suburban setting...
...RIGHT, THERE'S THIS LITTLE black box full of mysterious and potent electronics that all kinds of people, good, bad and ambiguous, want to possess. The prize is merely the key to the universe -- or anyway that portion of it that is computer-driven. The box can decipher any security code and permit anyone, hacker or master criminal, a free, personally enriching, socially destructive play in this great new field of dreams...
...Many who reject the messengers still accept the message. They do not like the moral tone of American TV. In our society only the human family surpasses television in its capacity to communicate values, provide role models, form consciences and motivate human behavior. Few educators, church leaders or politicians possess the moral influence of those who create the nation's entertainment...