Word: possessiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other books considered offensive by the government, were suddenly hotter than a chunk of radioactive cobalt. By a neat change of phrase in the law that formerly merely prohibited the sale of such books (penalty: $600), Interior Minister Theophilus Dönges had made it a crime even to possess them. Standing dusty and unused on a forgotten bookshelf, a copy of Stuart Cloete's The Turning Wheels, UNESCO's The Roots of Prejudice, or any of the works of Novelist Mickey Spillane can cost its owner a fine of $3,000, or five years in jail...
...recluse. Into her parlor steps persuasive Dr. Brightlee, whom the audience has no trouble identifying as the Devil. But this devil is for the most part on the side of the angels-on the side, at any rate, of the world's artists and individualists, of all who possess courage and resist conformity. Nor need they be potential Beethovens; he equally favors a hackie (Robert Emmett) who yearns to be a hoofer...
Besides reviewing some of the broader effects of smut and rot upon the nation's economy. The Yearbook analyzes many individual types of diseases, some of which seem to possess unique importance. A chapter entitled "Broomrapes, Dodders, and Mistletoes" is particularly noteworthy because it illustrates the alarming growth of parasites in this country. The problem is serious, although the chapter offers one small note of encouragement: "The damage caused by broomrape in America does not approach the situation in Europe...
...fellow newsman last week: "The French people are old. We are very witty, very charming and very intelligent, but we are old and we want to stay quietly by our own fire. The Germans are less charming but they are young-they want to fight, to make love, to possess . . ." Mme. Tabouis was trying to explain why the old, tired French do not want to face the problems of EDC (the European Army project including Germany...
...gambler's group"--whose achievements have not yet equaled their potentialities. He says, "Each year we deliberately gamble on a fair number of young women who may not rank impressively by the criteria we have so carefully established but who none the less seem to the Committee to possess interesting personalities or to have cutting edges to their minds." A four-year study of the "gambler's group" proved they are worth the risk. Their academic record is equal to that of the student body as a whole...