Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miss Bingham uses the dramatic technique, Jonathan Kozol does not, at least so far as I am concerned. I am quite sure that there is a plot in his novel, but it is not clear upon one reading, and that reading does not inspire another. There are striking passages in this phantasy of juveniles, and there are yards of obscure phrases and intentions just waiting for a clever explicator with a firm feeling for the Freudian groundrules...
...amendment authorizing the President to postpone the "least essential" one-fourth of the pork-barrel projects. But Douglas knew what would happen. "History is repeating itself," he said in wry tones. "Every time I rise to criticize the rivers and harbors bill, a perfect swarm of hornets descends upon me, and the questions buzz...
Easygoing Jimmy Hines never minded the charges that began to cascade upon his empire, mostly because nobody could prove them. He cautiously avoided bank accounts and investments, was always careful not to record such income as the $200,000 or so received from Schultz. Even when Dutch was bumped off in Newark by a rival mob, Jimmy's power was such that he continued to operate his special political services for Schultz's successors. Then, in 1937, a prosecutor named Thomas E. Dewey rounded up three talkative Schultz mobsters. With their testimony, Tom Dewey nailed Hines...
...candidate for Congress were to be subjected to penalties such as loss of employment, public ignominy, refusal of a passport, and similar disabilities, the unsoundness of such a policy would be obvious to all. Yet public opinion is apparently willing to tolerate legislation and practices inflicting those consequences upon persons who similarly utilize another portion of the Constitution. This is as irrational as if a university were to expend great effort and sacrifice in establishing a magnificent library; but then were to expel any student who read a book...
...fashionable, upper-class Episcopal home in Philadelphia, ended in an English Roman Catholic convent, and may be crowned by beatification by the Roman Catholic Church. In The Case of Cornelia Connelly (Pantheon; $3.75), British Roman Catholic Author Juliana Wadham brings back to life a reverberating scandal that burst upon the U.S. and Britain in 1849, when the Catholic Church was struggling to re-establish itself in England...