Word: possessives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example. Image: Daumier doctors (no, not Daumier) attend to the ailing Cardinal Mazarin. They assume grave countenances and huddle aside for a conference with Colbert, Mazarin's aid and confidant. Diagnosis: lung dropsy. Prescription: bleeding and the ingestion of rhubarb and precious stones. The opening sequences of Louis XIV possess all the touches of realism that we have come to expect of contemporary, slice-of-life realism, but it is a realism rendered bizarre by its historical setting. Realism reified, alienated. If the characters believe the witchcraft of the doctors, can we be sure at any moment that we know...
...plan provides for parity in delivery systems but not in megatonnage. Because some Soviet rockets are so much larger (some SS-9s pack 25 megatons v. five megatons for Titan 2, the biggest American 1CBM), the Soviets would probably come out with more firepower. Each side, however, would still possess more than enough megatonnage to destroy the other...
...19th century Europe. The cities are threatened in each case by a few hundred or at most a few thousand men. But, as the Canadian example showed, small numbers can affect a whole nation, if the right pressure point is found. In the late-20th century, minuscule bands possess disproportionate power to render a society immobile...
...argument demolishes any notion that we possess a well-knit social fabric. His fears are much the same as Fromm's in Escape from Freedom. His solution to our dangerous discontents- calling for a reintegration of ourselves into a community-is remarkably similar. Slater criticizes our compulsive inability to confront important issues and chronic social problems. He notes wittily that our approach to transportation problems has had the effect of making it easier to travel to more and more places that have become less and less worth diriving to-that is, if one can afford the luxury of a private...
...take heart in small things. For instance, there are many, many tidbits of practical knowledge that we did not possess three years ago. We now know that: it is not essential to spend half the day hating the HSA; there is never any reason in the world to go into Lamont Library; it doesn't make any difference which, Harvard House gives us shelter; it is not important which faction won at the SDS national convention; it does nothing for us to know that being a senior means easy admittance to some courses...