Word: possessives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unlikely source. In the third book of Machiavelli's Discourses, the 15th century Florentine sage declares of bodies such as republics that "those changes are beneficial that bring them back to their original principles. And those are the best-constituted bodies, and have the longest existence, which possess the intrinsic means of frequently renewing themselves." This renewal can be accomplished by a "blow from without," by which Machiavelli clearly means a foreign attack or invasion. But the same effect, he says, can be achieved by "internal occurrences" that test the national system of laws. Machiavelli's point...
...talks" from the seat of an old high-miler. I do not know enough about science or philosophy to assess Pirsig's originality from that perspective, but he did not write the book to be weighed in as a philosopher. The autobiographical threads that connect his chautauquas possess the urgency of self-revelation. An attempt to exorcize and thrash the "ghost of rationality" haunts Pirsig's story, and his personal quest animates the intellectual odyssey. The book's roots in common experience enable one to follow and savor its course...
...Crimson overruled the Judges of Brandeis in a 7-2 decision on Soldiers Field to become the first team in the history of the league to possess the mythical Bike Cup (awarded for excellence among Beantown's collegiate baseballers) four seasons in a row. The win gave Harvard a 6-1-0 GBL slate, while Brandeis finished with two losses in the circuit. The rest of the competition was hopelessly out of it a week...
...favor--and it is significant, for many other memorialists fall into the trap--is that he completely avoids sentimentality or indulgence for his 18-year-old self. He makes no attempt to portray his friends or his earlier self as anything other than imperfect individuals. He appears to possess that higher form of egotism that prompted Oliver Cromwell to have himself painted warts...
Hollywood, creator of America's next breed of immortals could possess them as completely. Representing for America the great internationalization of the great American dream, it created another race of stars apart, another generation of lucky creatures locked in another as different a world...