Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROSEMARY'S BABY. Under the direction of Roman Polanski, Mia Farrow gives a shivering performance as the put-upon heroine, in the film version of Ira Levin's bestseller about devil worship and other naughtiness on Manhattan's West Side...
...privately-endowed university depends upon the experienced guidance of wise counselors and managers both inside and outside academic ranks, and also upon the financial and moral support of a large, organized body of alumni and friends. But their vital contribution must never obscure the essential quality of the institution: the university is a community of scholars, both teachers and students. Any tendency to treat a university as business enterprise with faculty as employees and students as customers diminishes its vitality and communal cohesion...
Third, the survival--literally the survival--of the free university depends upon the entire community's active rejection of disruptive demonstrations. Any sizeable group, left to pursue such tactics, can destroy either the university by repeatedly disrupting its normal activities or the university's freedom by compelling the authorities to invoke overwhelming force in order that its activities may continue. The only alternative is for the entire community to reject the tactics of physical disruption with such overwhelming moral disapproval as to make them self-defeating...
...acceptability of the foregoing principle depends upon organization of the scholarly community in ways that produce both loyalty and the relief of grievances. The government of a university depends, even more than that of a political community, upon the consent of all the governed to accept decisions reached by its constitutional processes. The consent of the dissenters depends partly upon their knowing that their views effectively entered into the process of consensus, even though they did not prevail. They must also be convinced that the opportunities for change are open and the goals and stance of the enterprise are sufficiently...
...SIMILAR fashion, the Report says that the "survival--literally the survival--of the free university depends upon the entire community's active rejection of disruptive demonstrations." But, in an interview as well as in the report, Cox warned that this should be taken together with the idea that the institution must be organized "in ways that produce both loyalty and the relief of grievances." These ideals, of course, are extremely difficult to argue with, but aside from a few hints (such as "ways must be found, beginning now, by which students can meaningfully influence the education afforded them and other...