Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never thought I would live to see the day when the spiritual leader of millions of Roman Catholics would send his condolences upon the destruction of twelve empty airplanes and never utter a word against the wanton slaying of twelve human beings who perished in a Jerusalem market explosion while doing their Sabbath shopping...
...applying his own standards to another's work. For to make this observation, one must first assume that man is, as Christian philosophy dictates, the earthly king of the universe. This assumption, however, goes entirely against the grain of Mr. Steinbeck's philosophy, which was based upon an intense, pantheistic love of nature, and led him to "animalize" his characters in order that he might free them from their sanitized, alienated existence and place them with utmost dignity within the grand scheme of the universe...
...keep it out of the hands of Harvard students and Faculty at large, when the most superficial examination of its contents would reveal that they included factual material necessary for an informed decision about ROTC. This kind of secrecy is intolerable in an academic community that places a premium upon rational choice based on knowledge of the relevant facts. It was not until opponents of ROTC discovered a copy, more than one month after it was released, that its contents are being publicized. Indeed, if the Faculty had been able to meet and decide on the ROTC issue...
Most important of all, this memorandum will challenge the Harvard Faculty to take a bold position in support of an unpopular but totally logical and just issue now confronting the academic community, nation-wide. It will call upon Harvard to demonstrate, positively, its traditional role of national leadership...
...primary source of junior officers for the Army Officer Corps is unthinkable. The armed forces simply cannot function--nor should they be expected to function in our complex society--without an officer corps comprised largely of college graduates, just as most of our national institutions these days rely upon college educated men for their leadership. Who is prepared to trust their sons--let alone the nation's destiny--to the leadership of high school boys and college drop-outs? Only the grossly uninformed or narrowly bigoted critic could fail to comprehend that the armed forces have a perfectly valid need...