Word: possession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kennedy and Mondale both preach the same old-time Democratic religion, and therefore appeal to something of the same constituency-even though Kennedy may still possess a certain magic of political celebrity that transcends ideologies. Jonathan Moore, a moderate Republican who is head of the Institute of Politics at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, believes that the first Democratic reaction to Carter's defeat will be a lament that the Georgian "ran as a Republican," that the party must regain its soul by reasserting itself as the champion of the poor and minorities, that it must turn...
...smothering attentions. His wife's evidence-supported by his own dreams and memories-reveals that what seemed a marriage of near exemplary closeness was actually a case of almost childlike mutual dependency. A psychiatrist insists that men kill because it is only through murder that one can totally possess another. He warns that Peter must now be regarded as a potential suicide because, having murdered his wife's surrogate in an enactment of possessive passion, he must now kill himself in order finally to possess himself as well...
...most of his characters reach on the subject that they ponder. If they are "marionettes," then it follows that they are controlled by invisible strings, by forces that the individual himself cannot perceive and that must elude even wise analysis. If this is so, then the whole effort to possess someone else, even in the radical way that Peter used, is absurd, as is the effort to understand it in conventional moral and emotional terms...
...Kishinev refuseniks who have been applying to rejoin immediate family members in Israel for the past three to six years, have been denied exit visas on the grounds that they possess state military secrets. David Vodovoz, one of the six refuseniks, worked as a construction painter during his military service and denies possessing any such secrets...
...field hockey works because of its unique social origins; the size, speed and strength advantages men possess, factors that normally weight any athletic contest between the sexes heavily toward men, are aptly compensated for by women's game experience and stick-handling skills. The majority of women who play house hockey have played at least one year in high school, often four. For most men, house intramurals are their first exposure to field hockey, and while high school seasons of soccer and ice hockey help them pied up the game quickly, they have not yet closed the gap in skill...