Word: upon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Your "Thanksgiving 1968: Mixed Blessings" [Nov. 29] commentary upon the American scene is far, far too optimistic. The materialistic clamor all about us has just about stilled the human spirit, and the only way the human spirit can now be heard above this deadening din is by way of dissent, protest and demonstration-peaceful and violent...
...table will be round or square, whether the chamber will have more or fewer doors, whether such and such a plenipotentiary will have his face or his back turned toward the window, whether such and such another will take two steps more or less while making a visit, and upon a thousand other questions of equal importance, uselessly debated for the past three centuries." Things have scarcely changed since...
...difficult to be a prophet with honor in one's own country, particularly if that country is the Soviet Union. Yet Poet Evgeny Evtushenko seemed born to the role when first he burst upon the Russian scene a decade ago. He was young, handsome and engaging. His luminous love lyrics signaled the new kind of poetry that was possible after the death of Stalin. Babi Yar was a courageous, impassioned protest against Russian antiSemitism. In The Heirs of Stalin, he made a frontal attack on Stalinists still active among the Soviet leadership. Soon Evtushenko commanded a vast following...
...exciting biography about Warren Gamaliel Harding is like filming a chase sequence with a wooden Indian. Harding's instincts were all for posture. Like a suntanned Roman, he struck his Midwest Ciceronian pose and held it, occasionally delivering himself of the sort of speech that instantly self-destructs upon reaching the brain...
...character of the post-industrial society (Daniel Bell's phrase for a coming age of plenty and leisure), one day to the problems of U.S. foreign policy, and one day to the cultural future of the world. For obvious reasons, much of the scheduled exchange fell back upon generalizations which were assumed to begin with...