Word: possessors
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Last week Kennedy helped engineer an enlargement of the Democratic Steering Committee, clearing the way for more liberals to move into important committee jobs. Possessor of a flawless liberal voting record, his colleagues say he is a far abler Senator than is generally known...
...read all these books, shouldn't we divest ourselves of them? Why should the student, who no longer has the time to read, endure the silent indictments of those unbroken bindings, those laminated spines, whenever he enters his own room? After all, there is no obligation to be the possessor of things which have no use. Not until we learn that reading is an obsessive act, even a necessity, will we become at home in our libraries...
...played a French-speaking murder victim. Then came his super-bestseller, Love Story, which brought on such burdens as the latchkeys he said were thrust on him by airline hostesses. At Yale since 1964, an associate professor since 1968, Segal, 34, was up for tenure-which means that its possessor cannot be fired, except for flagrant wrongdoing. But the classics faculty turned thumbs down. Instead they appointed him senior lecturer, a post that carries fewer classroom responsibilities than a professorship. "It's sort of a middle ground," explained Department Chairman J.J. Pollitt...
...beverage which had the effect of rendering him temporarily insensible." Everything turns out well in the end: Ginger gets the heave-ho from Florence and finds true love, the club book is returned to its proper place, minus the embarrassing pages about Bertie, and Bertie remains single, the proud possessor of the greatest butler in the world...
...Feild is a proud possessor of one Turner landscape engraving entitled "Peat Moss of Scotland." He explains its long pedigree. Turner gave it to Ruskin who presented it to Charles Eliot Norton. From Charles Norton it passed to Denman Ross, who gave it to Arthur Pope, a noted Fogg professor and Mr. Feild's one-time boss, during the years Mr. Feild taught the principles of drawing and design at Harvard. Mr. Pope gave it to Mr. Feild, his student and colleague. It seems particularly moving and fitting that this gentle artist and teacher with an independent and fighting spirit...