Word: possessiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sica heightens his fantasy with a cast of unbelievable, but highly amusing characters, a grouchy tramp who longs to possess a silk hat, an effervescent, scatterbrained old woman, who dies and becomes an equally bouncing angel, and a weak-kneed general. To put across such unreal nonsense as Miracle in Milan, all the actors must show no signs of farcical acting. Since they do not, the motion picture is delightful...
...nearest women's college is Queens-Chicora, located in Charlotte, an hour's drive from Davidson. But this short distance could just as well be hundreds of miles, for only seniors are allowed to possess cars on campus...
...King Ranch, and decided she knew all about Texas. I have lived 45 years in Texas-and if I had my "druthers" would still be there-and sincerely wish someone would write about the other 7½ million or so people who live there who don't possess an oil well, a 100,000-or-more-acre ranch or a fabulous hotel. Not that I begrudge the latter one item of what they have. More power to them...
Fallen Creatures. Marie and Gilles are conventional sugar-sticks, but Agathe. straining for a love she cannot possess and Nicolas, moving from his false idolatry of Gilles to a love of God, are remarkably impressive figures, gargoyles of suffering and striving. In telling their story, Novelist Mauriac shows himself still deeply preoccupied with the fevers of the human blood; at 66, he does not pretend to a resignation he apparently cannot feel...
...what thy heart would glory to possess...