Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stacks of Widener, in the IAB pool, in the house dining hall long after the trays have been cleared, or making movies in Carpenter Center, or watching them at the Brattle. Every January and every May we all creep out of our niches and pile book upon book onto our outstretched mind and carry the whole precarious pile, maybe 20 tottering books high into Emerson 105, take a seat, and for three hours pull out one book from somewhere in the middle and then another, like the old table cloth trick, and then the bell rings and you drop...
...painful events in his life. The interrogator may alternate kindness with brutality; a strange bond, which does not exclude a measure of affection, develops between captor and captive. Write Psychiatrists Lawrence E. Hinkle Jr. and Harold Wolff: "The interrogator is dealing with a man who might be looked upon as an intentionally created patient; the interrogator has all of the advantages and opportunities which accrue to a therapist dealing with a patient in desperate need of help...
...months ago, that specter was evoked by British Novelist C. P. Snow: "We may be moving-perhaps in ten years-into large-scale famine. Many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets...
...civil rights movement welcomed white allies and could not have existed without them. What has now become the black revolution?separatist, militant and proud?has no use for the white man, especially the white man who is also a Jew. Belsen and Dachau are scars upon the Jewish memory; black nationalists deride them as evidence of Jewish submission. Says Psychologist Nathan Caplan of the University of Michigan : "The raw edge of the new anti-Semitism is not exploitation by Jewish merchants. Instead, it is almost an unwillingness to act pacifically like the Jews in Germany. Maybe they feel that...
...around a table and iron out all the differences, but when you go to put that into practice nothing ever comes out of it in terms of moving to get people out of this kind of slavery. The other day I talked with a Jew who impressed upon me that he grew up on the Lower East Side. It was a ghetto when he went to school, but he got out of it. I said to him: "If it was a ghetto then and you left it and turned it over to me, what do you think happened...