Word: possession
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...established wealth, power and authority, may find yourselves in the position of the Bat in Aesop's fable: kicked out and repudiated by both sides. Perhaps you think you will not suffer much inconvenience, at that, since in addition to the reputed characteristics of the bat, you also possess the ability of the chameleon to change to the safe color upon short notice...
...other colleges for undergraduate productions of every description. Probably one explanation of this disinterestedness in Harvard Dramatic Club plays is that they were performed without benefit of an up-to-date theatre, Harvard, the cradle of college dramatics, being almost the only university in America that does not possess today a modern theatre or theatre-auditorium. Be that as it may, it is most discouraging to act to blocks of empty seats, and yet the Club has courageously continued to stage plays from the pockets of its members through sheer love of the theatre. It cannot long survive, however, without...
...England and the United States of America, said Stalin, possess elementarily democratic liberties. There exist there trade unions for workers and employes. There are workers' parties and there is Parliament...
...Orientals, incapable of understanding machines. But one set of Orientals, the Chinese, withdrew in the face of military reverses to China's mountains, and there succeeded in pinning down 1,000,000 Japanese soldiers for over two years. Even allowing for Soviet weaknesses and failures, the Russians already possess an industrial setup that makes Chungking look pretty primitive...
...time come to restore the American classics? . . . . A few American classics are . . . . important for everybody . . . . a few . . . . important for us. Such, for example, is Whittier, as the folk poet of Snow-Bound, and also by virtue of his passion for freedom . . . . It is important for us to possess an American memory...