Word: possessives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both Woods and the Rev. Juan Cortes, a Jesuit psychology teacher at Georgetown, point out that in traditional Catholic teaching on possession, the evil spirit was considered to be a lesser demon, not the devil himself. Cortes doubts the existence of such lesser demons, seeing them merely as archaic religious interpretations of what are now recognized as mental and psychological disturbances. Though Cortes believes in a personal devil who incites evil, he does not believe in possession. Thus, he says, the movie results in "a victory for the devil, because people will believe he can actually possess them...
Delivery and timing are, of course, essential to the comic value of such a situation. Julie Harris and Charles Durning possess both to perfection. They fence together like Olympic champions. Harris gives the performance of a star's star, while Durning acts with a subtlety, daring and solidity that he has not achieved before, even in That Championship Season. Whatever qualms some drama critics have expressed about Joseph Papp's play choices, his first season at the helm of the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater has brought a superior caliber of acting such as was never seen or even...
...fitting not merely that he [the physician] should possess a knowledge of diseases and their remedies but also that he should be one who may safely be trusted to apply those remedies. Character is as important a qualification as knowledge. -Supreme Court...
...risk of appearing naive, I expect the leaders of our country to be honest, to possess integrity, to love freedom and to safeguard democracy. I still believe such people exist...
...falsity of such a statement comes to light, those who embraced it will simply turn to the next document purporting to show the I.Q. to be meaningless, immoral, culturally biased, capitalist, racist, etc. For many people, these episodes appear to generate no cumulative skepticism about the criticism. If you possess a thoughtful cast of mind, you should be piqued by this curious phenomenon, for it is a rare specimen of emotion submerging reason, of wish outweighing fact. Later, I will give some examples, drawn from last Tuesday's Crimson (November...