Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Genet has had only one other play over produced in America-- The--Maids-- which was given off-Broadway last season. The author has spent most of his life in jail for thievery and was only saved from life imprisonment in 1948 upon the personal intervention of Andre Gide, Jean Paul Sartre, and Jean Cocteau. Sartre has been Genet's chief advocate, writing several essays about...
...appropriate enough that in the dream voyage of a dying man upon the operating table there should be a remoteness to the characters, a fleeting vaporousness that makes orientation in time and space more and more difficult. If this results in some loss of humanity in the drama, it creates an atmosphere most congenial to the brilliantly clear play of some of Aiken's ideas--the loneliness of a human being who feels he has been set off from his fellows by an experience for which many of us will find a counterpart in our own lives...
...monstrous confusion of Harvard architecture, however, Dean Sert will be hard put to achieve many constructive ends. He cannot find a more central location for classrooms than the Yard. But to revamp that center would require vacating many classrooms during the period of construction. Dean Sert is called upon to perform a minor miracle. The only encouraging aspect to his job is that it is the first time Harvard has even seen fit to employ a moderately scientific method of development. We hope it is not too late...
...spectacular finish to their campaign, Dupont supporters borrowed a Cadillac limousine from the grandmother of one of their number, prevailed upon a Yale freshman to impersonate their candidate, and appropriated Widener's steps for a formal ribon cutting ceremony and rally Tuesday...
Proofreading rates only a brief discussion, but the harm resulting from a failure to practice the art is amply demonstrated by the three corrections penned upon the mimeographed pages. Another error slipped by the Department's eagle-eyes...