Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Board of Managers will base its decision primarily upon Coleman's recommendations, which he will submit by March 13. Coleman said, however, that he was not sure what he would suggest...
...inherent inequity, at a time when men are called upon to risk their lives for the nation, of any such occupational deferments from military service which may in practice turn into permanent exemptions...
...prepare its final blows. But the personal toll on Friedman was tremendous: "The despair of the long weeks when the problem seemed insoluble, the repeated dashings of uplifted hopes, the tension and the frustration and the urgency and the secrecy all converged and hammered furiously upon his skull." He collapsed, but three months after his breakdown, Friedman returned to work, although in a less demanding area. Today, at 76, he lives in Washington in retirement...
Power Play. Which indeed the plot resembles. Myra is actually a Myron who has had a Christine Jorgensen-type operation and is passing through Hollywood, trying to rape havoc upon unwary heterosexual males. To Myra, sex involves power play, with more power than play; the book's most harrowing scene is Myra's cruel seduction and humiliating buggery, with an artificial penis, of an all-American male...
...than a flighty drag is Vidal's stylish and erudite sense of humor, his sharp pokes at intellectually provocative themes, and his spoofing of literary forms: the book, he says, is really "a send-up on the nouvelle roman." In that vein, he offers metaphor after metaphor based upon far-out late-show conceits ("I whispered like Phyllis Thaxter in Thirty Seconds over Tokyo"). And he makes it Myra's thesis that the flicks of 1931 to 1945, if not the high point of Western culture, were certainly the most formative influence upon anyone who came...