Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Farnsworth has lamented, "We're called upon for lectures and conferences on drugs all over the country but rarely are we approached on the problem at Harvard." Harvard students do not want UHS advice because they believe that the Services is out of touch with what is happening here...
Profit defined the purpose of PBH as finding non-violent alternatives for acting upon the critical social problems facing America. "There is not much chance for producing change with a program not connected in some way with the schools," Profit said...
Research, in fact, has been the keystone of the company ever since 1847, when Werner Siemens founded a telegraphy workshop in Berlin. "The future of this factory," said Siemens, "depends upon its own inventions." Nineteen years later, he developed the modern electric dynamo; in 1928 the Siemens company built the first telex machine and still later, the first telex network...
...Society of Authors' Representatives, a gentlemanly association of agents who valiantly try to regulate their business with a code of ethics. He is its most important nonmember. He advertises the services of his 30-man staff, and he charges a fee for reading manuscripts-two functions frowned upon by the S.A.R. Meredith can afford the frowns. His stable includes Norman Mailer, Gerald Green, Ellery Queen, Mickey Spillane and Meyer Levin, and he sells about 6,000 "properties" every year...
...disconnected house, on a disconnected morning, Anastasia comes suddenly upon a little girl (Karen Ascheim), the daughter of a married lover. There is a chilling scene. Two witches in a sun-lit room, mirror images through time. Anastasia confronts her small imp of the perverse, little Pearl in a red frock. What does she feel before that inscrutable child? Envy for times past, fear for the child's future indifference before accusation, shame? Nothing so simple. In that transcendent silence, white spheres of guilt and innocence flash and tumble, collide and fuse. Souls changes places, lose and gain whole years...