Word: possessiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anti-Communist measures in the McCarran Act. It is the same kind of battle fought by men like Justice Sutherland on behalf of another kind of liberty twenty years ago. The same principles are there: that individual liberty needs Court protection from legislative whim; that "a state does not possess a sovereign right to behave unreasonably in its relations with its subjects"; that arbitrary subversive legislation can easily be extended to permit the grossest kind of abuse...
...examined now by both the departments and the forthcoming Committee on Special Standing; extension of the privilege to the junior year, however, would be unwise. Research is exciting, but in inexperienced hands will too often be mis-directed. Even under close tutorial supervision, a junior does not possess the background of formal study necessary to make research worthwhile. And because a students is first exposed to individual tutorial in the junior year, no judgment should be made until then of his ability to work under the responsibility of a reduced course load...
...mostly the superior villainy of Messers. Cagney and Robinson that makes the films wonderful. Cagney brushes grapefruits into his lovely breakfast partner's face--no, not Jean Harlow, he meets her later. And in addition to his badness he is Loyal, Friendly, Helpful, Kind, Obedient, and in fact possess most of the handbook virtues, making him popular enough to be an interesting hero...
...their last meet the Cadets were crushed by Yale, 65-19, winning but one first place, the 200-yard backstroke. From today's meet, Ulen can get an idea bow his team will fare against undefeated Yale. The Elis now possess a 105-meet winning streak...
Dramatic Specter. The first requirement of education for privacy is "to learn how to think-not out loud or in print, but privately. The thinker himself, not his neighbor, is to be the beneficiary ... To possess one's soul in an intellectual sense means to have found some answer, or partial answer, to the questions: What is the nature of this world . . . what is my place in it, and what must be my attitude toward...