Word: possessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...restrictions on publishers and sellers of obscene material. "The states," said Marshall, "retain broad power to regulate obscenity." That being the case, the new ruling creates an anomalous situation. "It says," complained District Attorney Lewis Slaton of Atlanta's Fulton County, "that a person has a right to possess obscene material which is illegal to sell...
Various moderate student leaders are now calling for a "moratorium" on the strike. Such a moratorium, regardless of what its proponents say, would amount to calling off the strike entirely. The strike is the only solid asset that students interested in bring about real changes at Harvard possess, and it should not be discarded until those real changes have been...
...long dominated by small operators should add powerful momentum to the nation's ambitious goal of almost doubling housing production (to an average of 2,600,000 units a year for the next decade). Even if enough mortgage money were available, the old-line construction industry would not possess the entrepreneurial or technical base for so rapid an expansion. In any case, craft labor unions, archaic local building codes and the industry's fragmented organization inhibit mass production and inflate construction costs. Big combines might ultimately even do for housing-the biggest investment most families make-what Henry...
...political process which was deeper and more meaningful than the ceremonial functioning of casting one's ballot; open access to elective office which does not pretend to be compatible with the development of an office holding elite; and thirdly, a sense among the people that they did possess the ability to effectively manipulate their government. These concepts are interrelated, and each of them makes a common contribution: opening, and keeping open, channels between the people and the government...
...Just then Williams' second theoretical concept, that of kinetics, comes along to clarify and expand the meaning of the discussion. Because kinetics stands for the ability to keep the listener "caught up in the motion of the songs," an ability that very few rock groups, such as the Who, possess. Again Williams gives carefully chosen examples of how exactly and Airplane manipulates tension, rhythm, loudness, and speed of tempo to produce a furious drive in their songs...