Word: possessives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SATANISM. "Blessed are the strong, for they shall possess the earth. If a man smite you on one cheek, SMASH him on the other!" This inverted gospel ?from Anton Szandor La Vey's The Satanic Bible?sets the tone for today's leading brand of Satanism, the San Francisco-based Church of Satan. Founded in 1966 by La Vey, a former circus animal trainer, the Church of Satan offers a mirror image of most of the beliefs and ethics of traditional Christianity...
...broad perspective, the agreements formalized the U.S. shift from the Eisenhower-Kennedy insistence upon "nuclear superiority" to what the Nixon Administration terms "nuclear sufficiency." Since the Soviet Union was intent upon reaching at least parity with the U.S. and since both sides possess a tremendous overkill capability, the new U.S. stance makes sound sense. In agreeing that defensive missiles will be limited to two sites in each nation and that no more offensive ballistic missiles will be installed, the U.S. risks little; the "balance of terror" will not be upset to the advantage of either side...
...community organizations from Chicago's predominantly white Northwest and Southwest sides, charges that the Department of Housing and Urban Development violated the antipollution law when it approved 100 sites in those areas for public housing projects. The complaint says: "As a statistical whole, low income families ... possess social class characteristics which will and have been inimical and harmful to the legitimate interests of the plaintiffs." Among the characteristics named: "Disregard for physical and aesthetic maintenance of real and personal property, a higher propensity for criminal behavior and acts of physical violence and a lower commitment to hard work...
...With absorbing interest and deepening wonder, I read your story of ITT [May 1]. It left me with a creeping sensation of fear. What dedication to the almighty dollar! What price success? What monsters possess us? I can now better appreciate the revolt of young people against the Establishment...
...Quite a few, if they measure satisfaction in terms of the emotional response they evoke from their listeners.* As Marshall McLuhan has pointed out, radio is a "hot" medium, involving more listener participation to complete its communication than such "cool" media as films or TV. "The people feel they possess you," says Ellen Morphonios Rowe, a criminal court judge in Miami who runs a late-night show on WKAT. "They really feel you belong to them...