Word: possession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another form of negation, a man may lose confidence that his fellows possess the strength and wisdom to put their ideals into practice. Especially among students, negation may shield the "nascent frailty" of spiritual apprehensions that are not "sufficiently matured for either private acknowledgement or public exposure...
Henry N. Lamar, freshman football coach, presented the awards, substituting for varsity coach Norman W. Shepard, who was unable to attend. Lamar, quoting from Shepard's prepared speech, said that Boulris' name "will be high in the annals of Harvard baseball." Harrington was said "to possess all the qualities of Dana J.P. Wingate, for whom the award is named...
...second thoughts but most of them joined in with the newspaper hymnsinging. Marya Mannes of the Reporter complained about Hingle's naturalistic acting in the title role--"This is a classic role that demands a classic actor with the kind of diction only the classicists of the theatre possess"--and would have preferred to see "Olivier or Richardson" in "MacLeish's exalted poem"; but she had no reservations about the play itself--"I know of no other American poet who could write this legend in such noble and flexible language or maintain, as he does much of the time...
...thereupon drew up a treaty stating that "sovereignty of such territory" is "actually vested in the Republic of Panama," but giving to the U.S. "all the rights, power and authority within the zone . . . which the U.S. would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign . . . to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, powers or authority." Thus the U.S. flag flies over a strip of land that divides Panama-an emotional situation easily exploitable by politicians...
Assigned to do a term paper on television critics, Iowa State University Coed Elisabeth Dwight recently sought help from her father, Ogden Dwight, who happens to be the TV critic for the Des Moines Register (circ. 224,337). How much influence, she asked, does the television critic possess? Replied Dwight: "Not a damned...