Word: possessives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bicentennial finds some thoughtful Americans seeking a renewed sense of covenant and virtue, even though the concept embarrasses many. Few speak of moral progress or Utopian hopes in a moment like ours. Yet it is possible that today too little is made of those rare virtues that we do possess. The Catholic bishops' committee that came to scold stayed also to praise. "Many of the new emphases are positive and praiseworthy: sensitivity to the dignity and fundamental equality of all men and women; increased concern for individual self-realization; broadened perception of the moral decisions which must be made...
...named. Sartre calls this "positive misinformation." Similarly, words can go to the extreme of "non-knowledge" instead of meaning-as-knowledge. This kind of distortion is possible in any language simply because the printed or spoken word is a physical reality. The words "frog" and "ox," for example, possess a sound and image totally unrelated to the animals they conjure up. Sartre contends that a phrase like "The frog that wants to become as big as an ox" contains, in an inextricable blend between materiality and meaning, much more corporeal density than the expression...
...lives of its minor artists. To write about them without falling into postures of condescension, gossip or overpraise is one of the toughest of all biographical feats. It requires a lack of sentiment, a close eye for social nuance and a sense of balance which not many biographers possess. Holroyd has it all, and Augustus John is his ideal quarry...
Despite these problems, it is clear, as Kissinger was ready to say this week, that increased cooperation between the developed and the developing world is essential. The failure to work together is fraught with some very real dangers. For one thing, the producer states possess an enormous potential for disrupting the flow of vital materials to developed countries. Four countries (Chile, Peru, Zambia and Zaire) control fully 80% of the exportable copper in the world; two (Bolivia and Malaysia) account for 70% of the tin; another four (Jamaica, Guinea, Surinam and Guyana) are responsible for 95% of the bauxite exports...
...sleep over his decision to drop that first atomic bomb, but in the course of three decades Americans have become less certain about who their enemies are and what right the U.S. had to visit a holocaust upon the citizens of Hiroshima. At least half a dozen nations now possess the secret of nuclear destruction, and some 7,000 missiles many times as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb stand ready to ravage civilization. The fact that they have not yet done so can be ascribed to many reasons, but one, surely, is that Hiroshima did happen and that it does...