Word: possessiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South Korea, he reacted out of deeply rooted American principles. The Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the decision to defend South Korea are examples of the healthy Truman reflex. If any problem was close enough, desperate enough and clear enough, he knew what to do. He did not possess and he did not develop the ability to look ahead, to avoid the crises, to build...
Catch a Beau. A good third of her mail comes from teen-age girls, many asking how to catch a beau. ("The three great boy-catching qualities a girl can possess are: Femininity, Amiability, and Enthusiasm.") For those who want more elaborate answers she has a shelf full of pamphlets ("Mothers-in-Law," "Philandering," "Are You Sure It's Love?", etc.). To those who want her to broaden her interests and run a matrimonial bureau on the side she gives a sympathetic but firm no, has never been able to figure out why my most intelligent mail seems...
...production reduces the lifelikeness without achieving anything larger than life. Desire Under the Elms need only be compared with the great run of facile, cut-to-measure plays to reveal how uncompromisingly O'Neill aspired. But it need only be compared with brooding, grey-toned work that does possess breadth and grandeur-Thomas Hardy's, for instance-to reveal how distinctly O'Neill fell short...
...asked and answered continuously: in speeches, reports, official investigations and persistent probing by the press. Not so in the case of the AEC. All definite figures about its performance-from laboratories and uranium mines to finished atom bombs-are beyond the reach of the public. The men who possess the facts are forbidden on pain of death (Atomic Energy Act of 1946) to communicate them. For all the taxpayer knows, the AEC may be dropping his money down a bottomless hole...
...free speech, free worship, ownership of property, equality before the law-all these are mutually dependent for their existence. Thus, when shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and that, without it, all rights would soon disappear...