Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the anonymous roller that pressed upon my life a certain intricate watermark whose unique design becomes visible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life's foolscap...
...combined achievements with his limitless genius. Yet while the scope of Bach, Handel's only contemporary equal, is now fully grasped, the boundless wealth of Handel has been reduced to one or two operatic arias, a couple of organ concertos, the Water and Fireworks music, and the annual outrages upon the long suffering Messiah...
...Herald exceeded journalistic propriety? The grand jury seemed to think so. Two weeks ago, it not only indicted Edwards and his fellow accuser of perjury, but also rebuked the newspaper for taking it upon itself to put the witnesses under lie-detector examination. "Neither we nor other judicial tribunals," said the jurors, "believe that truth is made by an operator of a polygraph machine." A harsher rebuke came from Baggs in another News editorial: "The Herald assumed the robes of De Judge and, in effect, pointed a long and accusing inky finger at Mr. Gerstein. The grand jury believes that...
Gothic Tastes. O'Neill the sometime melodramatist could not have improved upon his own beginnings. He was born on a grey, showery day in October 1888 in the Barrett House, a family hotel fittingly located on Broadway. (During his last illness in Boston 65 years later, he was to raise himself from a stupor and cry: "Born in a goddam hotel room and dying in a hotel room!") His father, James O'Neill, a famous romantic actor of the day. was giving something like his 1,400th performance in Monte Cristo, the play which for over a quarter...
Tierney added, however, that these projected figures of students are not definite and could become more or less depending upon the success of the program...