Word: possession
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nothing about. (I believe the same principle obtains in chemistry and physics). Now the incontrovertible fact is that neither Professor Kistiakowsky nor Professor Feld have ever seen, let alone read, the report which is the subject of your article and their comments; such knowledge as they believe themselves to possess stems from garbled and in part misleading newspaper leaks. Yet ignorance does not deter Prof. Feld for "discounting" the report and Prof. Kistiakowsky from dismissing it as a "red herring." Which raises serious questions about their judgment, not to speak of the value of their views on the work...
...light of some of President-elect Carter's recent actions, however, it appears that liberal Democrats may have just as much to fear as their conservative counterparts. The nominations of Griffin Bell, Harold Brown and James Schlesinger to the Carter cabinet are cases in point. All three nominees possess views that are incompatible not only with Carter's campaign promises, but with liberal Democratic positions on civil rights, defense spending, and nuclear energy...
...Empery's enjoyment and possess...
...serve? Will he be responsive to the neglected economic issues of international affairs and sympathetic to the needs of the developing nations? Will he be able to distinguish between a worthy ally and a tyrannical client, between a genuine national interest and the demands of corporate investment? Does he possess a sense of his own fallibility and a healthy questioning of his country's place in the world? Is he committed to openness and honesty in the execution of his duties? In short, is he the best Jimmy Carter could have offered the country after over a decade of deceit...
...comedian is the tightrope artist of laughter. If his audience does not laugh, he falls, plunging into the terrifying void of collective silence. Yet the comedian's precarious venture does not end there. He may possess a commodious catalogue of jokes and tricky bits of business, but finally he has to put together some sort of theory as to why people laugh. This is a question that has puzzled minds of the caliber of Socrates' and Freud's, and Novelist George Meredith's and Philosopher Henri Bergson's, let alone your stand-up comic...