Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adopted two Senate resolutions calling upon the Eisenhower Administration to do what it is already doing: speed up spending of already authorized funds...
...eerie mood as well. In The Sea Is Boiling Hot, the panther became a stoical Japanese infantryman (Sessue Hayakawa) marooned alone on a Pacific island in World War II. His unwelcome visitor: a fallen U.S. airman (Earl Holliman). The two-man play dared to turn almost entirely upon monologues by the American, yet managed effectively to sweep its characters over their language barrier from enmity to camaraderie. Though obliged to make few sounds other than some grunted Japanese, aging (68) Silent...
SINCE Louis XIV looked with favor upon the artists of France, Paris has been the capital of the world of art. Great art revolutions spilled out of Paris; great art masters stormed the barricades there, ruled as tastemakers for more than two centuries. In mid-20th century, with France drifting toward ever lesser status as a world power, how does the Ecole de Paris stand...
...Book of Job as an attempt to justify God's ways to men; but to another school of thought, the book's enormous thesis means simply that no justification is possible-only revelation, before which the man who cries for justice and understanding must "lay his hand upon his mouth." In his new verse-play, J.B. (Houghton Mifflin; $3.50), Poet Archibald MacLeish, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner, adds a new emphasis to Job's epic ordeal-a justification of the ways...
...heard upon his dry dung heap That man cry out who cannot sleep...