Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wish to continue supporting Nasser, but at his press conference on Berlin threw in a few side remarks about the dictator of the Nile that were meant to wound and were bound to sting. "President Nasser," said Khrushchev, "is a rather young man and rather hotheaded, and he took upon himself more than his stature permitted. He shouldn't do it. He might strain himself...
...Orlovsky did not say a word during the entire reading, and it was only during the question period that, upon the urging of the audience, he read three of his short poems...
...ingenuity and invention. The element of control is there, but it is innate, instinctual, the reservoir of all Picasso has learned and said. Precisely in this sense, and not in any spirit of license, The Bathers must be viewed indulgently as a Picasso. This is his domain, building upon a past he himself created. If he is making mistakes they are mistakes he has been careful to earn...
...holding the stars upon his head, Heracles gained the apples of immortality. And it is true that a sense of eternity-if not immortality-will often spring from contemplating ageless powers: stars, mountains, oceans...
...fate, argues Eliot. "We know our fate is of each moment, we know it is eternal, and we know what it is. Ever since classical times we have known what man's fate is. We have known it in our hearts and we have acted upon it. Man's fate is to be free...