Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even Fries' humor sounds crisp, though its predictable source lies in the absurdity of the current scene and the pretentious twaddle of all establishments, whether founded upon outworn socialist unrealities or rampant democratic rhetoric. Arlecq puts in a stint as a government guide, conducting a party of Indonesian comrades from Goethe's shrine in Weimar to the Buchenwald concentration camp where, in spite of his efforts, the Indonesians beam and smile, mistaking it for a prehistory museum. He also works as an interpreter at an international conference. When the Cuban spokesman takes the floor, Arlecq switches...
Biographer Foster naturally dwells upon the anguish of the long Nigerian period as the turning point of Cary's life. He etches in the hostile social and literary milieu in which Cary's vocation stubbornly flourished-where a stronger talent in a weaker man might never have come to fruition. In the long run, isolation proved a blessing. For Cary had to sweat over his craft far from the corrupting literary ambience that often sustains but modishly distorts young talent. London was full of Weltschmerz and fashionable reliance on canned Freud and Frazer. Cary was unaffected. Literary myth...
...memo was entitled "The Case for ROTC at Harvard." In it, Pell claimed that "the Harvard anti-ROTC debate has produced no real evidence that ROTC has ever had any adverse effect upon the Harvard Faculty or student body...
...ROTC is under attack at Harvard now," he said, "because a small group of student extremists--a tiny minority of the student body--have played upon the inherent anti-war sentiment shared by a majority of peace-loving, traditionally isolationist Americans...
...What adverse effect is ROTC having upon the Harvard faculty and student body at this time...