Word: possessor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reveal for the record a lack of understanding of U.S. v. Seeger. In that decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a man may be classified a C.O. if his antiwar views come from convictions that are "sincere and meaningful" and "occupy a place in the life of its possessor parallel to that filled by the orthodox belief...
...become relevant; it is doing things that it has not been equipped to do. The new function of service--no matter how much men like Pusey believe it is the modern thing to be doing--is tearing the university apart. Barzun writes: "Knowledge is power an its possessor owes the public a prompt application, or at least diffusion through the training of others. It thus comes about that the School of Social Work aids the poor, the School of Architecture redesigns the slum, the School of Business advises the small tradesman, the School of Dentistry runs a free clinic...
...when the policy of containment, the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, fashioned a new American foreign policy, and that this capital has now been nearly exhausted." Not only does the use of raw military power have distinct limitations, but another paradox of the atomic age is that the possessor of overwhelming strength is often no stronger for it in dealing with other nations. Russia tolerates abuse from Rumania, Albania and China, and independence on the part of Yugoslavia. The U.S. has learned to live with Castro's Cuba and lesser annoyances in Latin America. While this lesson has been...
Wish Fulfillment. In embryonic form, all of these Nabokovian traits and interests are present in The Waltz Invention. The hero, Salvator Waltz (Roland Hewgill), is a paranoiac who believes himself to be the possessor of a potentially earth-destroying machine that makes ordinary bombs look like firecrackers. Awaiting an interview with the Minister of War (Henry Thomas) of a kind of Balkan republic, he imagines how the interview will go and how his threats will be honored. The play therefore takes the form of megalomaniacal wish fulfillment, rather like Hadrian...
...Supreme Court case of U.S. v. Seeger. In that decision, Justice Tom Clark broadly interpreted the test of religious belief. To qualify as a C.O., wrote Clark, a man's convictions must be "sincere and meaningful" and "occupy a place in the life of its possessor parallel to that filled by the orthodox belief in God." Seeger, who had voiced "skepticism about the existence of God," did not go so far as to call himself an atheist. Clark pointed this out, concluding that "the question is not, therefore, one between theistic and atheistic beliefs. We do not deal with...