Word: possessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State Department's Loy Henderson insisted, is "political sensitivity-without it a Ph.D. is useless. With it a high school student is invaluable." Messrs. Kennan, Reischauer and Galbraith will not win the cold war by setting fine tables. But they have personable wives, and. above all, they possess political sensitivity to the highest degree...
...discovers that, in life, they were monsters of depravity who not only had licentious relations with each other and with other servants in the household, but even in some mysterious and horrible way perverted the children. She discovers, or thinks she discovers, that they have come back to possess the children. Why? Hell only knows. Worse yet, she discovers, or thinks she discovers, that the children know they have come back, that in fact the dear little boy and girl who kiss her 30 times a day and never say a naughty word are lewdly, furtively delighted to have them...
...continuing by using me, for actually, it's not I who is writing but you, you are speaking through me, trying to see things from my point of view, to imagine what I could know that you don't know, furnishing me the information which you possess and which would be out of my reach." When the three pages worth of story finally end on page 351, even violence and tragedy come as relief...
...Green of the London Observer, even managed to praise and condemn the same tour. In the program notes, which he wrote, Green found Brubeck's appeal "to the casual listener as well as to the specialist" to be "one of the most important assets any jazz musician can possess today." In his newspaper column Green grumped that "the quartet is so markedly deficient in certain essential jazz qualities that its popularity can hardly be regarded as a success for jazz at all." Pianist Brubeck was understandably irritated but not unduly worried. His success proved, he said, not that...
Students still possess great freedom to voice publicly their complaints; but this fall in face-to-face meetings with the deans students have been blocked in attempts to discuss issues that may embarrass the Administration...