Word: upon
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...greatly expand his contact with undergraduates by eating one lunch and one dinner per week in a College dining hall. Moreover, he could seize the initiative for student contact at appropriate times. For example, when SDS challenged him to debate University complicity in the Vietnam War, Pusey apparently looked upon this as an affront to the dignity of his office. Had he instead accepted the challenge as an opportunity for valuable exchange of views, both he and the students might have gained some useful understanding of each other...
Dylan went through a period of intense personal projection in Blonde on Blonde and Highway 61 Revisited. He was himself the main character in most of the songs, either being acted upon (usually vicously) or acting (even in "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat," "Well I saw him/Makin' love to you/You forgot to close the garage door.,"). And when he did comment on social ills ("Memphis Blues Again," "Desolation Row") he did so in terms of the gritty reality all around him, fish-trucks loading, the "heat-pipes that cough," the "Senator showing everyone...
Fourteen-carat gold in my mouth, silk upon my back...
Last night's vote was held because of ambiguity over the exact nature of the January resolution. The minutes of the January meeting-- which detailed the wording of the referendum and its "binding" upon the Council--were apparently lost in the flurries of exam period excitement...
...College's lack of a respectable alternative to the Honors program, increased course and departmental requirements, and graduate schools' emphasis on grades, all are contrary to a liberal education. Departmental semiautonomy blocks changes in this system--sometimes even if the Dean personally favors such a move. It is upon the Departments that students should exert more constructive pressure...