Word: possession
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dull Norm. Poets, says Nicolson, seem crazy to themselves and others because they possess a "special nervous sensibility." This not only makes them extraordinarily receptive to inspiration, but the intervals between inspirations afflict them with a neurotic sense of "loneliness . . . failure and pathetic incompetence." When inspired, "almost all creative writers have at some moments of their lives been panic-stricken by the conviction that their imagination was getting the better of their reason. . . . The God visits them, not amicably, but in a flash of flame and fire." In Shakespeare's phrase: "Such tricks hath strong imagination...
Certainly, for those who possess the qualifications and aptitudes for the Foreign Service, rich rewards in the way of a satisfying, interesting, and important public service are available. William P. Maddox, Director, Foreign Service Institute...
...concerning the adventure of a young publisher who intrudes himself, "on the footing of a lodger," into a dilapidated Venetian palazzo, where lives, with a middle-aged niece, an ancient woman who, ages before, had been mistress of the great poet Jeffrey Aspern, and who is still purported to possess a packet of love letters from him. It is the object of the publisher fellow to possess himself of these billets-an object which eludes him when the middle-aged niece, after her aunt's death, burns the letters because he will not take her with them...
Although the school to primarily for directors, instructors, and coaches who want to add skiing to their programs, amateurs are encouraged to enroll. The only qualification is that the applicant must possess some rudimentary knowledge of skiing...
...star line seems to possess all that such a group should: outsized ends, tough, rangy tackles, fast guards, and a blocky pivot man. Wingmen hail from the Deacons and the Bunnies, with Bill Eaton and Joe McVicker respectively on the flanks. Biggest sector of the line is the tackles, where Leverett's "Moose" Chilcott and "Bull" Nozak from the Yard can throw a total of 460 pounds at the opposition...