Word: possessiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Father Connell added a practical point: "If these supposed rational beings should possess the immortality of body once enjoyed by Adam & Eve, it would be foolish for our superjet or rocket pilots to try to shoot them. They would be unkillable...
...high rank in the Midwest. More important, the university, under Hancher, is one of the boldest crusaders against the vocationalism that plagues U.S. state universities. "Somewhere," Hancher tells his students, "the art of contemplation has been lost...An occasional mystic or band of mystics have preserved the art . . . They possess an integrity, a calm and assurance, a wholeness of mind and body that is a kind of holiness. This wholeness, this holiness, I crave...
...hurry to recognize genuine kindness, humble dignity and courageous truthfulness, Eleanor Roosevelt stands out like a stoplight. Born into a halcyon world, fortified against poverty and bitterness by wealth, social position and a fortunate marriage, the memories of her "shy, ugly duckling years" have no doubt helped her to possess the wonderful empathy she has for peoples everywhere ... I, for one, who have never met or even seen "Mrs. R.," love her dearly; how must others, who have been touched by her, feel...
Maria got her portrait ("Wish me joy," she wrote, "for I possess your Picture"), and it was about all she had to remember Jefferson by. He went back to the U.S., and she founded a school for girls in Lodi, Italy...
Coping with Communism in this light demands great patience and moral staying power. Theologian Niebuhr is as worried as many Western Europeans that Americans do not possess those qualities in sufficient measure. Without faith, the classic U.S. idealist is the modern man who hovers between "subjection to the 'reason' which he can find in nature and the 'reason' he can impose on nature." He is now frustrated, fearful and impatient with his first experience of a great historical struggle which he cannot control. Warns Niebuhr: "There is no simple triumph over this spirit of fear...