Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bands on their transistors. They hug their girls on the processional path and pull them from each other's arms and look them over cockily. At any moment you expect them to draw knives: first against each other, then against the believers. For the way these youngsters look upon believers is not as juniors upon their elders, not as guests upon their hosts, but as lords of the manor upon houseflies. Still, it doesn't come to knives. For decency's sake, three or four policemen are patrolling here and there. Nor are the obscenities roared across...
...with a candle inside. He glances apprehensively up at the lantern, anxious to keep it steady, and as apprehensively from side to side. This-this is the picture I would paint if I knew how! What does the verger fear? That the builders of the new society will fall upon the Christians, that they will beat them up? The onlookers share his fear...
...ruling against the Government in a set of appeals last week, the Supreme Court imposed upon Government lawyers a fundamental choice for many future cases. A 5-to-3 majority of the Justices declared, in effect, that the Government must show an accused man the records of any illegal bugging or wiretapping made on his private conversations, or on any talks that took place on his premises. Either that, or the Government must drop the prosecution altogether...
...author put huge difficulties in the way of his intention, which is simply to tell about the family of Harvey Whipple, a New Hampshire businessman, from the beginning of World War II through the first postwar years. He hit upon the unfortunate scheme of writing what seem to be fragments of separate novels about each member of the family and then cobbling the pieces together. There are simply too many pieces; the family includes, besides Whipple and his wife, three teen-age sons and a daughter, a young girl boarder and a cat. The human characters are led through...
...premise behind them all: that somehow students and professors are natural enemies, instead of being mutually dedicated collaborators. It is no mere cliché that the President voices at Commencement, when he tells the seniors that they are being admitted "to the fellowship of educated men." Civilization itself depends upon this basic fellowship. Any attempt to disrupt it is not merely immature and irresponsible; it is totally uncivilized. Harry Levin Chairman Department of Comparative Literature