Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order to achieve a more valuable contribution to sociology, Erving Goffman should study more closely the work of his putative intellectual forebears, Cooley and Mead. Surely social life is more than the banal playing out of prescribed social roles by "normal" social actors. Though social order is based upon a high degree of mutual expectation in role behavior, the viability of social life is fruitfully conceptualized in terms of highly frequent, residual rule-breaking by "normal" persons, as well as by supposed deviants. Are all human relationships as disingenuous as Goffman portrays them...
Sitting alone at an 18-foot table in the crowded chamber, Hickel fielded a barrage of questions about his policies during two years as Governor. Why had he taken it upon himself to block a Japanese freezer ship from buying fish from a struggling Eskimo cooperative, thus forcing the Eskimos to sell the catch at lower prices to local private interests? The Senators said that he had overstepped his authority by unlawfully invoking an international agreement. "I just don't recollect," said Hickel. "It was a human error." (Last week the cooperative filed a $150,000 suit against Hickel...
...deck of the little 350-ton Arbella plowing westward through the angry Atlantic to the Massachusetts coast in 1630, John Winthrop preached a sermon that struck the theme of what America in all its future years would seek to be. "Wee shall be," Winthrop prophesied, "as a Citty upon a Hill, the Eies of all people are uppon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his present help from us, wee shall be made a story and a byword through the world...
Almost three and a half centuries later, many Americans view the U.S. as something far less than a shining "Citty upon a Hill." To baffled foreign eyes, the nation that once roused hopes around the world now appears inexplicably torn by tension and dissension, its vast treasure squandered with a profligate's hand, its fabulous beauty pockmarked by hideous urban scars. Has the American Dream become the American damnation, a formula for selfishness rather than equality and excellence? British Historian Sir Denis Brogan flatly states: "This is not going to be the American century. Very few people are enamored...
...need a unifying national challenge, a moral equivalent of Pearl Harbor? To lead and heal the nation, Richard Nixon will have to marshal immense compassion and intellect. The presidential imperative to comprehend the real forces of the age-and link them constructively to the unique character of the "Citty upon a Hill"-may never have been so difficult...